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This work is the result of a research and book writing project that were completed in the Department of Shari’ah and Economics, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya during the period of May 2016 and April 2018. The main objective of this work is to undertake an intellectual study of the Qur’an in respect of its supercardinal central principle of Tawhid as Oneness of Allah in belief and scientific formalism. The emphasis on the interpretation of Tawhid is in terms of it being singularly the all-abiding law of ‘everything’, as the Qur’an declares, the law of ‘everything’ between the heavens and the earth; of all that lie below and above the earth; and in every multidimension. Tawhid as law encompasses both the seen and unseen realities that are treated as symbolism and semiosis in explaining the generality and details of the world-systems of multi-universes, the multiverses of explained reality engaging physicalism and non-physicalism. We refer to this phenomenon of integrated organic treatment of moral and material interaction, integration, and evolutionary learning forever in knowledge, space, and time dimensions as the abstracto-applied, also abstracto-empirical phenomenology. This is the study of consciousness in its conceptual and applied meanings of the formal study of ideas, functions, and forms.
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All translations and exegeses of the Qur’an are from A. Yusuf Ali (2013). The Meaning of the Holy Quran, Werner McGregor, New York.
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Choudhury, M.A. (2019). Introduction: Fundamental Precepts of This Treatise. In: Meta-Science of Tawhid. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21558-3_1
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