Masudul Alam Choudhury
Masudul Alam Choudhury is a Bangladeshi-Canadian economist and International Chair in Islamic Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Biography
Masudul Alam Choudhury was born in Calcutta, India on January 1, 1948. He attended the universities of Dhaka, Islamabad, and Toronto for his advanced education in mathematics and economics, earning a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1977. He moved to Canada from Bangladesh and taught economics at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada for twenty two years.
Apart from that, he has taught at various universities around the world, including the University of Toronto, Sultan Qaboos University, King Fahd University, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, National University Malaysia, University of Regina, and Trent University.
Contributions to academia
Although an economist and mathematician by training, Professor Choudhury has contributed to the associated fields of finance, sociology and the philosophy of economics. He is the founder of the epistemic field of Tawhid and the Islamic socio-scientific world-system, with extensive theoretical and applied studies in the corresponding fields of economics, society and science. In all these areas his focus for much of his career has been in the area of participatory dynamics related to diverse problems of economics, finance, and socio-scientific systems studied in the epistemic worldview. He taught economics for twenty-two years until his retirement from Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2008. He graduated with his Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1977. Professor Dr. Masudul Alam Choudhury presently lectures on the Post-Graduate Program in Islamic Economics and Finance in the Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. He offers Ph.D. level subjects, namely, Islamic Epistemology of Economics and Finance; Islamic Microeconomic Theory; Islamic Macroeconomic Theory; Advanced Islamic Economics and Finance; and Islamic Comparative Development Studies. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics. This international journal is published by the University of Darussalam Press, Gontor, Indonesia.
Works
The Principles of Islamic Political Economy: A Methodological Enquiry The Islamic World-System: A Study in Polity-Market InteractionMoney in Islam: A Study in Islamic Political EconomyContributions to Islamic Economic Theory: A Study in Social EconomicsAlternative Perspectives in Third World Development: The Case of Malaysia with Uzir Abdul Malik, Mohammad Anuar Adnan Comparative Development Studies: In Search of the World View.Islamic Economic CooperationMeta-Science of Tawhid: A Theory of OnenessIslamic Economics and Finance: An Epistemological Inquiry Comparative Economic Theory: Occidental and Islamic Perspectives Islamic Financial Economy and Islamic Banking The Foundations of Islamic Political Economy with Uzir Abdul MalikIslamic Economics as Mesoscience: A New Paradigm of KnowledgeAbsolute Reality in the Qur'anGod-Conscious Organization and the Islamic Social EconomyStudies in Islamic social sciencesIslamic World ViewTawhid and Shari'ah: A Transdisciplinary Methodological EnquiryThe Universal Paradigm and the Islamic World-system: Economy, Society, Ethics and ScienceIslamic Economics: Theory and PracticeReforming Muslim WorldHeterodox Islamic Economics: The emergence of an ethico-economic theoryIslamic Economics and COVID-19. The Economic, Social and Scientific Consequences of a Global PandemicAdvanced Exposition of Islamic Economics and FinanceMethodological Dimension Of Islamic EconomicsKnowledge and the University: Islam and Development in the Southeast Asia Cooperation RegionTawhidi Epistemology and Its Applications: Economics, Finance, Science, and SocietyEconomic Theory and Social Institutions: A Critique with Special Reference to CanadaScience and Epistemology in the Koran: Methodological issues and themes in the KoranCircular Causation Model in the KoranExplaining the Qurʼan: A Socio-scientific Inquiry. Winner of the Adèle Mellen Prize.