Islam
An interdisciplinary exploration of Islam as a faith, intellectual tradition and civilization — examining its approaches to knowledge, ethics, economy, law, governance, social solidarity and human development.
Faith, ethics, society and civilization.
Islam has historically shaped not only devotional life, but also intellectual traditions, social institutions, legal thought, commerce, education, philanthropy, architecture and civilization.
Islam beyond a single dimension.
Islam is first and foremost a monotheistic faith centred on belief in one God and the Qur'an as its foundational scripture, with the Prophet Muhammad occupying a central place in Islamic religious tradition.
Across history, Muslim scholars and societies also developed extensive traditions of jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, economics, education, science, public administration, charitable institutions and international commerce.
TEDRIC therefore examines Islam simultaneously as a religious tradition, an intellectual heritage and a historically significant civilizational framework.
From values to institutions.
A systems perspective asks how religious and ethical principles interact with knowledge, economic activity, law, governance and social institutions.
Knowledge · Ethics · Economy · Governance
The contemporary Adil Düzen / Akevler school presents social order through four interconnected fields: scientific/intellectual, moral, economic and political-administrative order.
Knowledge Order
Knowledge, language, research, education, intellectual competence and the production and transmission of useful knowledge.
Moral Order
Ethics, character, responsibility, social trust and voluntary moral institutions.
Economic Order
Production, labour, property, markets, money, credit, taxation and social solidarity.
Political & Legal Order
Justice, law, administration, arbitration, public responsibility and governance.
Knowledge as the foundation of civilization.
Islamic civilization developed extensive traditions of religious learning as well as mathematics, medicine, astronomy, philosophy, geography, language and other fields.
Learning
Education and transmission of knowledge form a central element of intellectual and civilizational continuity.
Research
Observation, reasoning and systematic inquiry have occupied important places within different periods of Islamic intellectual history.
Mathematics & Language
Language provides conceptual structures while mathematics offers tools for measurement, logic and systematic analysis.
Scholarly Competence
Education requires competence, methodology, teachers, institutions and mechanisms for evaluating scholarly knowledge.
Production, exchange, finance and justice.
Islamic economic thought addresses property, contracts, trade, prohibition of riba, charitable obligations, inheritance, risk, market conduct and social responsibility.
Finance should serve productive economic activity.
Islamic economic thought places substantial importance on lawful trade, contractual responsibility, property rights and economic activity while also establishing ethical limitations on transactions.
Contemporary Islamic finance has developed instruments and institutions seeking alternatives to conventional interest-based financial structures.
Trade
Exchange of goods and services within a contractual framework.
Production
Productive activity, enterprise, labour and creation of economic value.
Property
Ownership combined with legal, contractual and social responsibilities.
Partnership
Risk-sharing and participation structures in commercial activity.
Key concepts in Islamic economic life.
These concepts belong to different historical, jurisprudential and contemporary contexts and should not be treated as a single universally agreed economic model.
Riba
Islamic jurisprudence prohibits riba; its application and contemporary financial implications are studied extensively in Islamic economics.
Trade
Commercial exchange, contracts and market activity occupy an important place in Islamic economic jurisprudence.
Zakat
A religious obligation with significant social and distributive dimensions.
Waqf
Endowment institutions historically supported education, welfare and public services.
Participation Finance
Contemporary structures seek financing relationships based on trade, assets, leasing or partnership.
Sukuk
Contemporary Islamic capital-market instruments structured around underlying assets or economic interests.
Labour
Work, contractual obligations, remuneration and economic responsibility form part of the broader economic framework.
Social Solidarity
Family responsibilities, charitable institutions and community mechanisms contribute to social protection.
Money · Credit · Tax · Social Security
The following framework represents the particular Adil Düzen / Akevler school of economic thought and should be distinguished from the diversity of Islamic economic scholarship more broadly.
Money
The model discusses money in relation to real economic value and seeks mechanisms intended to protect its function as a measure of exchange.
Credit
Interest-free credit and partnership mechanisms are proposed as alternatives for financing productive activity.
Tax
Public revenue is considered within a wider framework connecting production, public services and economic responsibility.
Social Security
Solidarity and mutual assistance are treated as structural components of the economic order.
Justice as an institutional principle.
Islamic legal and political thought contains diverse historical schools and interpretations concerning law, public authority, consultation, rights and justice.
The human being within society.
A civilizational perspective includes the relationship between individuals, families, communities, institutions and the wider social order.
Knowledge translated into institutions.
Across different periods and regions, Muslim societies produced important institutions and intellectual traditions in science, commerce, education, architecture and urban life.
Science
Astronomy, medicine, mathematics, optics and other sciences developed through extensive scholarly networks.
Libraries
Libraries, manuscript collections and scholarly institutions preserved and circulated knowledge.
Architecture
Mosques, schools, hospitals, markets, caravanserais and public buildings shaped urban environments.
Trade Networks
Commercial networks connected cities across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Indian Ocean.
Art & Calligraphy
Calligraphy, geometry, decorative arts, manuscripts and architecture developed distinctive traditions.
Public Institutions
Hospitals, charitable foundations and educational institutions served different social functions.
Mathematics
Mathematical scholarship contributed to algebra, calculation, astronomy and scientific inquiry.
Knowledge Exchange
Translation and scholarly exchange connected Greek, Persian, Indian, Arabic and later European intellectual worlds.
Institutions that shaped social life.
The institutional history of Muslim societies offers a valuable field for comparative research into education, markets, welfare and governance.
Madrasa
Institutions of learning and scholarly formation in different periods of Islamic history.
Waqf
Endowment structures supporting education, welfare, infrastructure and public services.
Suq & Bazaar
Commercial institutions connecting producers, merchants, artisans and consumers.
Caravan Networks
Commercial routes and institutions connecting distant regional markets.
Libraries
Manuscript preservation, scholarship and transmission of intellectual traditions.
Bimaristan
Historical medical institutions found in several Islamic societies.
Qadi
Judicial institutions operating within historical Islamic legal systems.
Social Solidarity
Family, neighbourhood, charitable and institutional mechanisms of mutual assistance.
Research questions for the twenty-first century.
Contemporary Muslim societies are diverse and face different political, economic, demographic, technological and institutional conditions.
Islamic Finance
Participation banking, sukuk, takaful and other financial structures constitute a significant contemporary research field.
Technology & AI
Artificial intelligence raises new questions for ethics, education, jurisprudence, employment and social organisation.
Sustainability
Environmental responsibility, resource use and sustainable development increasingly intersect with Islamic ethics.
Urbanisation
Rapid urban growth creates new challenges involving housing, transport, social cohesion and public services.
Knowledge Economy
Universities, research, scientific capacity and human capital remain central to economic development.
Global Cooperation
Trade, diplomacy, education and international institutions connect Muslim societies with the wider world.
Adil Düzen & Akevler Research Tradition
This section presents a particular contemporary interpretive and socio-economic school. Its propositions should not be understood as representing all Muslim scholars or all approaches to Islamic economics.
A systems-oriented interpretation.
The Akevler / Adil Düzen literature describes its project as an effort to interpret divine messages through contemporary positive knowledge and to develop solutions for modern social problems.
From theory toward institutional models.
The tradition is associated with cooperative research and practical experiments beginning with Akevler cooperative initiatives and later developing extensive work on economic, legal, scientific and social systems.
Continue the research.
TEDRIC encourages comparative study using primary religious sources, classical scholarship, contemporary academic research and clearly identified schools of interpretation.
Primary Sources
Qur'an, hadith literature and foundational texts relevant to Islamic intellectual history.
Academic Library
Research Islamic history, economics, law, philosophy, science and civilization.
EXPLORE LIBRARY →Adil Düzen
Explore the contemporary Adil Düzen approach and its four-order framework.
VISIT SOURCE ↗Akevler
Explore articles, seminars and research associated with the Akevler intellectual tradition.
VISIT SOURCE ↗Research Islam through knowledge, systems and civilization.
TEDRIC aims to create an interdisciplinary research environment where theology, history, economics, law, science, society and civilization can be examined together while preserving the distinction between historical evidence, academic analysis and particular contemporary interpretations.
This page is intended for academic and educational research. Islam encompasses diverse schools of theology, jurisprudence, philosophy and contemporary thought. The Adil Düzen and Akevler sections describe a particular modern intellectual tradition and should not be interpreted as representing the views of all Muslims or the entirety of Islamic scholarship.