Masudul Alam Choudhury is Professor of Economics at the Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, and the University College of Cape Breton, Canada.

• Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives 1. A Theory of the Islamic World-System 2. A Formal Model of the Islamic World-System 3. An Evaluation of the Occidental World-System Part 2: Applied Perspectives 4. A General Systems Theory of Knowledge: Application to Family and Ecology 5. The World-System According IBN Khaldun's Prolegomena comparatively viewed 6. The Islamic Political Economy of Property and Property Rights: Concepts and Application 7. Micro-Money: Islamic Perspective 8. An Overlapping Generation Valuation Model with Debt-Equity Swaps 9. A Knowledge Model of Layers of Techniques 10. Conclusion

Masudul Alam Choudhury is Professor of Economics at the Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, and the University College of Cape Breton, Canada.

• Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives 1. A Theory of the Islamic World-System 2. A Formal Model of the Islamic World-System 3. An Evaluation of the Occidental World-System Part 2: Applied Perspectives 4. A General Systems Theory of Knowledge: Application to Family and Ecology 5. The World-System According IBN Khaldun's Prolegomena comparatively viewed 6. The Islamic Political Economy of Property and Property Rights: Concepts and Application 7. Micro-Money: Islamic Perspective 8. An Overlapping Generation Valuation Model with Debt-Equity Swaps 9. A Knowledge Model of Layers of Techniques 10. Conclusion