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,

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Biography

Masudul Alam Choudhury was born in

Calcutta Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...

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on January 1, 1948. He attended the universities of

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list o ...

Islamabad Islamabad (; , ; ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Bu ...

, and

Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

for his advanced education in

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

and

economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

, earning a

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from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

in 1977. He moved to

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from Bangladesh and taught economics at

Cape Breton University Cape Breton University (CBU) is a public university located in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the only post-secondary degree-granting institution within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality and on Cape Breton Island. The university is enabl ...

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, 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 Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) () is a public university located in al-Seeb, Oman. Established in 1986, it is one of the two public universities in the country and is named after Qaboos bin Said al-Said, the Sultan of Oman from 1970 until 202 ...

(National University of Oman), King Fahd University,

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, National University Malaysia,

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, and

Trent University Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham. Founded in 1964, the university is known for its Oxbridge college system, sma ...

Contributions to academia

Although an economist and mathematician by training, Professor Choudhury has contributed to the associated fields of

finance Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and Academic discipline, discipline of money, currency, assets and Liability (financial accounting), liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business administration, Business Admin ...

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

and the

philosophy of economics Philosophy and economics studies topics such as public economics, behavioural economics, rationality, justice, history of economic thought, rational choice, the appraisal of economic outcomes, institutions and processes, the status of highly id ...

(participative dynamics, circular causation,

ethics Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...

and

well-being Well-being is what is Intrinsic value (ethics), ultimately good for a person. Also called "welfare" and "quality of life", it is a measure of how well life is going for someone. It is a central goal of many individual and societal endeavors. ...

). He is the founder of the epistemic field of

Tawhid ''Tawhid'' () is the concept of monotheism in Islam, it is the religion's central and single most important concept upon which a Muslim's entire religious adherence rests. It unequivocally holds that God is indivisibly one (''ahad'') and s ...

(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

, in 2008. He graduated with his Masters and Ph.D. from the

in 1977. Professor Dr. Masudul Alam Choudhury presently lectures on the Post-Graduate Program in

Islamic Economics Islamic economics () refers to the knowledge of economics or economic activities and processes in terms of Islamic principles and teachings. Islam has a set of specific moral norms and values about individual and social economic behavior. There ...

and Finance in the Faculty of Economics,

. 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 An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...

of the Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics (JOCRISE). 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 Interaction'' * ''Money in Islam: A Study in Islamic Political Economy'' * ''Contributions to Islamic Economic Theory: A Study in Social Economics'' * ''Alternative 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 Cooperation'' * ''Meta-Science of Tawhid: A Theory of Oneness'' * ''Islamic 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 Malik * ''Islamic Economics as Mesoscience: A New Paradigm of Knowledge'' * ''Absolute Reality in the Qur'an''Reviews of ''Absolute Reality in the Qur'an'': * * ''God-Conscious Organization and the Islamic Social Economy'' * ''Studies in Islamic social sciences'' * ''Islamic World View'' * ''Tawhid and Shari'ah: A Transdisciplinary Methodological Enquiry'' * ''The Universal Paradigm and the Islamic World-system: Economy, Society, Ethics and Science'' * ''Islamic Economics: Theory and Practice'' * ''Reforming Muslim World'' * ''Heterodox Islamic Economics: The emergence of an ethico-economic theory'' * ''Islamic Economics and COVID-19. The Economic, Social and Scientific Consequences of a Global Pandemic'' * ''Advanced Exposition of Islamic Economics and Finance'' * ''Methodological Dimension Of Islamic Economics'' * ''Knowledge and the University: Islam and Development in the Southeast Asia Cooperation Region'' * ''Tawhidi Epistemology and Its Applications: Economics, Finance, Science, and Society'' * ''Economic Theory and Social Institutions: A Critique with Special Reference to Canada'' * ''Science and Epistemology in the Koran: Methodological issues and themes in the Koran'' * ''Circular Causation Model in the Koran'' * ''Explaining the Qurʼan: A Socio-scientific Inquiry''. Winner of the

Adèle Mellen Prize The Edwin Mellen Press, sometimes stylised as Mellen Press, is an academic publisher. It was founded in 1972 by theology professor Herbert W. Richardson. It has been involved in a number of notable legal and academic controversies, sometimes b ...

(2002).

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Choudhury, Masudul Alam 20th-century Bangladeshi economists 1945 births Academics from Kolkata Academic staff of Trisakti University Living people Islamic economists 21st-century Bangladeshi economists