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An index of well-being based on maqasid al-Shari'ah and fuzzy set theory
Abstract
The idea of expressing the objectives of Islamic, law (al-Shari'ah), the maqasid al-Shari'ah, goes back to works of early prominent Muslim scholars Al-Juwayni (1979), Al-Ghazali (1970) and Al-Shatibi (1302H). However, in the time of these scholars and later, no research was under-taken to explore the potential of maqasid as a tool for the measurement of well-being of a society, while in the West, with the introduction of quantitative methods into human sciences, many indexes were developed to measure the well-being of a society such as the gross domestic production (GDP), Human Development Index (HDI), etc. See OCDE (1982) for more details. Most of these indexes are not comprehensive and do not include the social and psychological dimensions of human life. Moreover, they could not predict the devastating financial and economic crises that occurred in the last decade and before. Therefore, they came under severe critics Stiglitz (2009). In the last decade, Chapra (2009), referring to the work of Ibn Khaldun, pointed out that maqasid al-Shari'ah could be used as the components of a socio-economic system. This work revived the interest of Muslim scholars to explore the theoretical and practical potential of maqasid al-Shari'ah in social sciences.
Keywords
Well-being index , Maqasid Shariah , Fuzzy set theory
Citation
Larbani, M., & Nizam, I. (2019). An index of well-being based on maqasid al-Shari'ah and fuzzy set theory. In S. S. Ali (Ed.), Towards a maqasid al-Shari'ah index of socio-economic development: Theory and application (pp. 231-248). Springer International Publishing.
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Springer International Publishing
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