Masudul Alam Choudhury

Masudul Alam Choudhury
Professor
Born (1948-01-01) January 1, 1948 (age 78)
Kolkata, India
OccupationProfessor of Economics
Awards⦿Adèle Mellen Prize
⦿COMCEC award, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
⦿International Islamic Social Science Award, Qom, Iran
⦿Farabi International Award, Tehran, Iran
⦿Rockefeller Foundation Award, Bellagio, Italy
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Dhaka
Quaid-i-Azam University
University of Toronto
Academic work
DisciplineIslamic Economics and Finance
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Cape Breton University
Trisakti University
Sultan Qaboos University
King Fahd University
King Abdulaziz University
National University of Malaysia
University of Regina
Trent University
Notable ideas
Tawhid (monotheistic law) and the Islamic socio-scientific world-system

Masudul Alam Choudhury (born January 1, 1948) 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 (National University of Oman), 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 (participative dynamics, circular causation, ethics and well-being). He is the founder of the epistemic field of Tawhid (monotheistic law) 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 (JOCRISE). This international journal is published by the University of Darussalam Press, Gontor, Indonesia.

Works

References

  1. 1 2 Ali, A.J. (2015). Handbook of Research on Islamic Business Ethics. Research Handbooks in Business and Management series. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-78100-945-1.
  2. ↑ Research Society of Pakistan (1990). Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan. p. 49.
  3. 1 2 Choudhury, M.A. (1993). The Unicity Precept and the Socio-scientific Order. University Press of America. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-8191-9079-6. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  4. ↑ Oncioiu, I. (2016). Driving Innovation and Business Success in the Digital Economy. Advances in E-Business Research (1935-2700). IGI Global. p. 316. ISBN 978-1-5225-1780-1. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  5. ↑ Choudhury, M.A. (2016). God-Conscious Organization and the Islamic Social Economy. Islamic Business and Finance Series. Taylor & Francis. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-317-12637-9. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  6. ↑ Reviews of The Principles of Islamic Political Economy: A Methodological Enquiry:
    • Behdad, Sohrab (1993). "The Principles of Islamic Political Economy: A Methodological Inquiry". Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. 27 (2). Cambridge University Press (CUP): 197–198. doi:10.1017/s0026318400027449. ISSN 0026-3184.
    • Midgeley, James (1994) "Review of The Principles of Islamic Political Economy. Masudul Alam Choudhury and Comparative Development Studies: In Search of the World View. Masudul Alam Choudhury. Reviewed by James Midgeley, Louisiana State University.," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 21 : Iss. 3, Article 18.
    • Presley, John R.; Choudhury, Masudul Alam (1993). "The Principles of Islamic Political Economy: A Methodological Enquiry". The Economic Journal. 103 (420). Oxford University Press (OUP): 1339. doi:10.2307/2234273. ISSN 0013-0133. JSTOR 2234273.
  7. ↑ Reviews of The Islamic World-system: a Study in Polity-market Interaction:
  8. ↑ Reviews of Money in Islam: A Study in Islamic Political Economy:
    • The Journal of Religion, Vol. 80, No. 3 (Jul., 2000), pp. 548-549
  9. ↑ Reviews of Contributions to Islamic Economic Theory: A Study in Social Economics:
    • Journal of Economic Literature Vol. 25, No. 3 (Sep., 1987), pp. 1323-1324
  10. ↑ Reviews of Alternative Perspectives in Third World Development: The Case of Malaysia:
    • The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 56, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 1155-1157
    • Pacific Affairs, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter, 1997-1998), pp. 625-626
    • Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN THE THIRD WORLD (FALL, 2000), pp. 225-230
  11. ↑ Reviews of Comparative Development Studies: In Search of the World View.:
    • The Economic Journal Vol. 104, No. 426 (Sep., 1994), pp. 1195-1196
  12. ↑ Reviews of Islamic Economic Cooperation:
    • Southern Economic Journal Vol. 57, No. 3 (Jan., 1991), pp. 890-892
  13. ↑ Reviews of Absolute Reality in the Qur'an:
    • Galadari, Abdulla (2017). "Absolute Reality in the Qur'an. By Masudul Alam Choudhury. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xxi + 231. Hardcover, $99.99". Religious Studies Review. 43 (4). Wiley: 414–415. doi:10.1111/rsr.13283. ISSN 0319-485X.