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The problems of economic retardation, general poverty, and political instability in Muslim societies are exacerbated by the blatant manipulation of Islamic ideology. This ideology is based on vague notions and medieval categories of thought articulated in servile subservience to foreign capital. The basic aim of the ‘Islamisation’ process, as will be substantiated in the course of the following discussion, is to justify the existing economic relationships and the status quo by obfuscating the immediate socio-economic problems of the masses.
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Tabari, Jami al-Bayan Tafsir al Quran (Cairo: Dar al-Maarif, n.d.), XI, pp. 374–5.
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See, for details on the concept of Islamic education, S. N. Al-Attas, Aims and Objectives of Islamic Education (Jeddah: King Abdul Aziz University, 1979).
See Ziaul Haque, review of Khurshid Ahmad (ed.), Studies in Islamic Economics, in Hamdard Islamicus (Karachi), V, No. 1 (Spring 1981), pp. 93–108.
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Haque, Z. (1992). Islamic Perspectives And Class Interests. In: Jomo, K.S. (eds) Islamic Economic Alternatives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12287-5_5
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