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Dear Mr. Nourahmadi,
The outline of your research looks excellent, and
I say this because it is very similar to the
outline I used for my book, The Vocation of
Business: The Theory and Practice of Social
Justice, which will be published next year by T&T
Clark. If you contact me offline, I will be happy
to send you an annotated table of contents, and
if any of the chapters seem useful to you, I will be glad to send them as well.
By the way, there is a great deal of overlap
between Islamic social thought and Christian
social justice, because they both stem from the
same source, Aristotle's view of justice filtered
either through Qur'an or Christian scripture.
Until about the 18th century, economics was
considered a colony of moral philosophy;
theologians and philosophers routinely commented
on economic matters. Purely individualistic views
of economics only began to take root in the 15th
century and the individualistic view of triumphed
in the 19th century. In my course on Social
Justice for Business Majors, I teach a section on
Islamic social thought, since that is necessary
knowledge for any business student in today's economy.
John Medaille
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