African Journal of Philosophy and Religious Studies

African Journal of Philosophy and Religious Studies ISSN 1621-4587 Vol. 4 (12), pp. 001-008, December, 2018. © International Scholars Journals

Review

The Qur’anic universe in knowledge, time and space with a reference to matrix game in Islamic behavioural financial decision-making

Masudul Alam Choudhury

College of Commerce and Economics, Sultan Qaboos University Muscat, Sultanate of Oman International Chair, Postgraduate Program in Islamic, Economics and Finance, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

Accepted 23 August, 2018

Abstract

The paper is a Qur’anic socio-philosophical rarity on the theme of learning model. Such a model is derived from the Tawhidi (monotheistic oneness) foundation of knowledge (epistemology). It is shown to construct a moral-social world-system of consciousness (phenomenology). The specific problem of Islamic behavioural economics and finance is shown to respond to such a learning model of Tawhidi unity of knowledge, its analysis, and application. The place of consciousness as the central note to Islamic behavioural dynamics in decision-making is shown to be located within the dimensions of knowledge, time and space. The analysis thus extends beyond the horizons of space-time structure. In so doing the paper is a contribution on the expanded and all-comprehensive worldview of the relations between God, Man and the universe embedded in the causal structure of the Qur’anic mind (res cogitans)-matter (res extensa) relations.

Key words: Qur’anic, res extensa, epistemology, decision-making, horizons.