Book contents
- The Contested World Economy
- The Contested World Economy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Three Orthodoxies in a Global Context
- Part II Beyond the Three Orthodoxies
- 8 Autarkic Visions of Economic Self-Sufficiency
- 9 Environmentalist Calls for a More Sustainable Economic Order
- 10 Feminist Critiques of a Patriarchal World Economy
- 11 Pan-African Responses to a Racialized World Economy
- 12 Religious and Civilizational Political Economies of Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism
- 13 Distinctive Visions of Economic Regionalism for East Asia, Europe, and the Americas
- Part III Ending at a Beginning
- Works Cited
- Index
12 - Religious and Civilizational Political Economies of Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism
from Part II - Beyond the Three Orthodoxies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2023
- The Contested World Economy
- The Contested World Economy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Three Orthodoxies in a Global Context
- Part II Beyond the Three Orthodoxies
- 8 Autarkic Visions of Economic Self-Sufficiency
- 9 Environmentalist Calls for a More Sustainable Economic Order
- 10 Feminist Critiques of a Patriarchal World Economy
- 11 Pan-African Responses to a Racialized World Economy
- 12 Religious and Civilizational Political Economies of Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism
- 13 Distinctive Visions of Economic Regionalism for East Asia, Europe, and the Americas
- Part III Ending at a Beginning
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines some Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian thinkers who argued that religious values and civilizational discourse needed to be front and center in discussions of political economy. The Pan-Islamic thinkers called for new kinds of economic solidarity among a transnational Islamic community that could promote its interests and values within the world economy. Their proposals included Iranian-born Jamal al-Din al-Afghani’s calls for the collective economic modernization of the Islamic world, the endorsement of specific joint economic projects such as the Hejaz railway by Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid II, and India’s Sayyid Abul A’la Mawdudi’s focus on the need for all Muslims to embrace a new kind of Islamic Economics. By contrast, the Pan-Asian thinker Sun Yat-sen focused on the interests and values of a transnational community that he conceptualized in civilizational terms. Sun argued that Asian countries’ interests and values could be promoted by development-oriented economic cooperation amongst themselves, their collective pursuit of neomercantilist goals, and an alternative tributary model of international economic governance centered on the principle of the “rule of Right.”
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- The Contested World EconomyThe Deep and Global Roots of International Political Economy, pp. 202 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023