Dr. Asad Zaman

04/25/2025

Debunking central myths of Eurocentric history

We’ve been taught that Europeans conquered the globe because they had the most advanced civilization. But what kind of civilization is built on conquests, exploitation, enslavement, and the deaths …

04/17/2025

Europeans conquered the globe not because they were smarted, but because they were more ruthless, and willing to go to any lengths to acquire wealth.

This blog is a brief summary of a more detailed article: Ruthless Modernity: A Moral History of the West. {bit.ly/AZrms} In the late 19th century, Belgian investors were earning steady returns on a…

11/20/2024

I have completed chapter 1 of my new textbook on third generation Islamic Economics. This provides a completely new approach to the study of human societies, aligned with Islamic epistemological foundations. Join my mailing list at bit.ly/AZIEML to get this chapter and updates as they become available.

The weaknesses of modern economics became painfully evident during the Global Financial Crisis of 2007, when the profession failed to predict the collapse and offered inadequate remedies to prevent…

10/08/2024

First Talk: Istanbul University,Wednesday, 9th Oct, 11:30am to 13:00pm SLIDES for talk Title: Unlocking Prosperity: How Islamic Property Laws Can Transform Our World Abstract: In a world grappling …

10/07/2024

I will be delivering four talks in Istanbul on Wednesday and Thursday, 9th and 10th October. The first of these is a talk which compares Capitalist property laws to Islamic property laws. A more detailed writeup is available from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/property-trust-forgotten-ethical-foundations-ownership-asad-zaman-semif/

07/28/2024

Pictures taken last year after a visit to IIIE, IIUI - I think it was a seminar about rebuilding Islamic Economics on new foundations, at International Institute of Islamic Economics as detailed in the blog post here: https://wordpress.com/post/azprojects.wordpress.com/5710
but maybe it was after a thesis defence - I am not sure.

06/28/2024

{bit.ly/AZWrei} Summary of talk on above topic at NUML on 6/27/2024. Slides for the talk: bit.ly/SSethics Good afternoon everyone. Today, I want to discuss the crucial topic of research ethics and …

06/18/2024

This lecture explores the profound impact of logical positivism on modern thought, particularly its dismissal of existential questions about the meaning of life. We examine how this philosophical shift has influenced education and society, leading to a perceived loss of purpose and the marginalization of moral and spiritual inquiries.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-meaningless-modern-lives-asad-zaman-xmdqf/

06/09/2024

Hudson explains the financiers provide loans, knowing that there is no capacity to repay, because that gives them control of the economy. If governments enforce policies favorable to them, they provide them additional loans to enable repayments. If they do not like the governments, they withhold loans, causing governments to fall.

In “House of Debt,” Amir Mian and Atif Sufi unveil the hidden yet pivotal role private debt plays in triggering macroeconomic crises. Surprisingly, most macroeconomics textbooks overloo…

05/10/2024

Instead of criticizing weaknesses, we must build on strengths, to achieve progress

{bit.ly/AZmother} Introduction: Expanding on the “infant industry” metaphor, this article explores the lessons that development economists could learn from the way mothers nurture and e…

03/25/2024

The greatest challenge facing the Ummah is to construct an alternative to modern Western education, which indoctrinates our youth in the Eurocentric narratives of superiority of Western civilization.

{tinyurl.com/AZdeco} A talk on above topic was delivered at Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad, on 23rd Feb 2024. The ZOOM video of original talk, in urdu, is given here: Decolonization of Educ…