Choudhury, Masudul Alam

(Professor of Economics and Finance, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman) Choudhury is currently the Dean and Professor of Economics and Finance at Sultan Qaboos University. Prior to that he was Professor of Economics at University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. His specialization is in the mathematical treatment of political economy from an epistemological methodology with a special focus on Islamic political economy and world systems. His areas of scholarly interest within this field span economic and finance areas and philosophical issues. His approach is systematic and cybernetic in nature, addressing general systems of complex and paired circular causation relations that are generated by both the positivistic view (empirical) and the normative view (ontological) in the framework of unity of knowledge and the world-system while using the Qur‘anic worldview of organic unity in comparative perspectives. His recent publications include: The Universal Paradigm and the Islamic World-System: Economics, Ethics, Science and Society (2007), Money and Real Economy (2006), and Science and Epistemology in the Qur’an, 5 volumes (2006). Choudhury received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.