Masudul Alam Choudhury is one of a handful of academic scholars in the field of Islamic Economics and Finance whose work has been recognised in both Western and Muslim academic circles as playing an influential role in defining the discipline of Islamic Finance and Economics. He is the first academic in his field to address the original METHODOLOGY OF TAWHID AS ONTOLOGICAL LAW IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A THEORY OF META-SCIENCE within the Qur’anic epistemological framework of Unity of Monotheistic Knowledge for over the past 35 years, by way of his seminal works, mathematical formalism and inferential approach. Money in Islam, first published by Routledge, 1997, and re-released a number of times thereafter, was the first major work in Islamic Economics written from a contemporary economic perspective. His work has spanned over 100 refereed papers and over 30 books published by highly rated publishing outlets (i.e. Routledge, Macmillan, Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, Sage, Kegan Paul, World Scientific, Taylor & Francis, New Palgrave, Edwin Mellen, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, IGI-Inc., among various others). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the SCOPUS-listed, Australian Deans Ranking and JEL-catalogued journal HIJSE (Humanomics: International Journal of Systems & Ethics) currently in its 34th year of publication. His published works have been reviewed by the Times Higher Education Supplement, Economic Journal, Southern Economic Journal, Middle East Review and the Journal of Economic Literature. He has also been a contributor to the Harvard University Islamic Finance and Investment Program at their annual gatherings in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has supervised numerous doctoral- and master-degree students, many of whom have graduated and moved on to successful careers in the industry and academia. He currently continues to be actively involved with postgraduate-level supervision in the erudite field of TAWHIDI METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATION of Islamic Economics and Finance, alongside his institution-building and charitable efforts in various countries worldwide. He has over 40 years of classroom teaching experience, research experience and service contributions in the conventional and TAWHIDI (TIE) fields. Among the institutions in which he has held teaching and research posts are University of Toronto, Cape Breton University (Canada, for 23 years until retirement), Sultan Qaboos University (National University of Oman), Oxford University, King Fahd University for Petroleum & Minerals (Saudi Arabia), King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, International Islamic University Malaysia, University of Malaya, National University of Malaysia, various universities in Indonesia and Malaysia and University of Regina, Trent University, and he has held summer Visiting Professor position in OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), University of Toronto, Carleton University, University of Denver, Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan, where he lectured on the TAWHIDI METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATION of Islamic Economics and Finance and its empirical application to the construction of an agricultural circular causation model and its prototype in the formulation of dynamic coefficients’ input-output model of agricultural development within the national development plan. Professor Choudhury is presently Adjunct Professor and International Chair of Postgraduate Program in Islamic Economics and Finance, Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. Although an Economist and Mathematician by training, Professor Choudhury has contributed to the associated fields of Qur’anic studies, Philosophy, Finance, Business Studies, Maqasid as-Shari’ah and, most recently, Computer Science (neural networks and complexity in the light of Tawhidi methodological worldview) and the diverse areas of Sociology within Economics (participative dynamics, circular causation, ethics, systems and well-being). In all these areas, his focus for much of his career has been in the area of TAWHID AS ONTOLOGICAL LAW AND ITS DERIVED FORMAL METHODOLOGY of participatory dynamics related to diverse problems of economics, finance and socio-scientific systems studied in the epistemological context. He has spearheaded a new theoretical framework in contemporary Islamic sciences termed TSR, or Tawhidi String Relationship. This is fast growing in popularity in scientific circles, in particular in Indonesia and Malaysia. Professor Choudhury is presently a Visiting Full Professor of Shari’ah and Economics in the Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, and Professor and International Chair in the Postgraduate Program in Islamic Economics and Finance, Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. He teaches and supervises doctoral students (www.ief-trisakti.ac.id) and researches and publishes distinctively in the areas of Islamic socio-scientific methodology, Shari’ah and economics and policy-theoretic applications using these foundational areas of Islamic studies. Professor Choudhury obtained his PhD in the field of Human Capital Theory and Economic Growth (Canada) from the University of Toronto. His detailed CV can be obtained on request.
