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BOOK REVIEW: The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology (By Jon D. Wisman, Department of Economics, The American University, Washington D.C.) Choudhury, Masud
Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics (JOCRISE) Vol. 1 No. 2 (2023): Search for the Socio-Scientific Core of Critical Realism
Publisher : University of Darussalam Gontor Press

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (470.313 KB) | DOI: 10.21111/jocrise.v1i2.12

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This is an original contribution, explained in informative content, and written in lucid language that can be accessed by an informed reader. The author is Professor Jon D. Wisman of the Department of Economics, The American University, Washington D.C. U.S.A. a prominent academic in the field of economic philosophical methodology, history of economic thought, and economic history.
BOOK REVIEW Imam Abdul Hamid Al-Ghazali (Imam Ghazali). Ihya Ulum Id-Din (Revival of Religious Learning), Vol. 1. The Book of Worship. Translated by Fazlul Karim. Darul Ishaat, Urdu Bazar, Karachi, Pakistan, 1993 Choudhury, Masud
Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics (JOCRISE) Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): JOCRISE: NEW PARADIGM PERSPECTIVES IN CRITICAL REALISM
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21111/jocrise.v2i1.30

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Sheikh al-Islam, Imam Abdul Hamid Al-Ghazali was born in 1058AD in the city of Tus, in Persia at that time. He died in the year 1111AD in this same city. The translator of the above-mentioned work writes: “Imam Abu-Hamid al-Ghazali is unquestionably the greatest theologian of Islam and one of its noblest and most original thinkers. He reproduced in his religious experience all the spiritual phases developed by Islam. It is therefore appropriate to inquire in this work and in many other ones that he has contributed to the pale of Islamic thought and worship (ibadah) as to what constitutes the centric focus of Islam regarding self and the world-system of Islamic belief and construction.
BOOK REVIEW Abu Hamid (Imam) Al-Ghazali (reprint, 1993) Ihya Ulum Id-Din (Revival of Religious Thought) Volume 3: The Book of Destructive Evils. Trans. Fazlur Karim. Darul Ishat, Urdu Bazar, Karachi - Pakistan Choudhury, Masud
Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics (JOCRISE) Vol. 2 No. 02 (2024): Unity Paradigm Of Mesoscience
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21111/jocrise.v2i02.61

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This book provides a review of the book “Ihya Ulum Id-Din (Revival of Religious Thought Volume 03)” the work of Islamic scholar Imam Abdul Hamid Al-Ghazali (Imam Ghazali Translated by Fazlul Karim. Darul Ishaat, Urdu Bazar, Karachi, Pakistan, 1993. This is an original contribution, explained in informative content and written in clear language that is accessible to knowledgeable readers.
BOOK REVIEW: Critical Realism: Basics and Beyond, by Hubert Buch-Hansen & Peter Nielson, Sept. 2020. London, Macmillan, 2020 Choudhury, Masud
Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics (JOCRISE) Vol. 2 No. 04 (2024): Values and Future of Concepts And Application of Critical Realism
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21111/jocrise.v2i04.73

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This book provides a review of the book “Critical Realism: Basics and Beyond”, by Hubert Buch-Hansen & Peter Nielson, Sept. 2020. London, Macmillan pp. 168 (ISBN 978 1 352 01065 7). This is an original contribution, explained in informative content and written in clear language that is accessible to knowledgeable readers
BOOK REVIEW: NOBEL LAUREATE PROFESSOR DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS, (2017). A WORLD OF THREE ZEROS, THE NEW ECONOMICS OF ZERO POVERTY, ZERO UNEMPLOYMENT AND ZERO NET CARBON EMISSIONS. Choudhury, Masud
Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics (JOCRISE) Vol. 3 No. 04 (2025): DISCUSSION ON QUR’ANIC NATURE OF MONEY
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21111/jocrise.v3i04.90

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This book review critically examines A World of Three Zeros by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, which advocates for a new economic paradigm centered on zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero net carbon emissions through the model of social business. While Yunus proposes social business as a moral and practical alternative to profit-maximizing capitalism, the review highlights key limitations in his framework. It notes the lack of epistemological depth and systemic methodological rigor in challenging entrenched capitalist structures. Moreover, while Yunus emphasizes microcredit and entrepreneurship, he under-theorizes the institutional transformation necessary to sustain a global order of social business. The book's optimism about technological change and development partnerships with capitalist entities also reveals contradictions in its critique of neoliberal economics. The reviewer introduces an alternative worldview based on the episteme of Tawhid and critical realism, advocating for a consciousness-based civilization rooted in unity of knowledge, justice, and moral purpose. Through diagrams and conceptual models, the review suggests that Yunus’s vision, though morally appealing, lacks the structural, philosophical, and theological grounding needed to realize sustainable transformation. A more coherent socio-economic alternative would require integrating ethics, consciousness, and systemic complementarity into the heart of development discourse.
BOOK REVIEW: Principal Model of Divergence In Increasing Inequality In Thomas Piketty (Translated By Arthur Goldhammer). Capital In The Twenty-First Century. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2014. Choudhury, Masud
Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics (JOCRISE) Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025): Supercardinal Accountability of Allah, Heaven, and Earth
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21111/jocrise.v4i1.102

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The section towards the end is a focused extract from the above masterpiece by Thomas Picketty. The question raised in this partial book review is that the current egalitarian expectation of Islamic Economics, Finance, and Social Contract by shari’ah scholars is untenable in a market economy. Thereby, only an abounding rich and enforcing policy mechanism of non-democratic states can provide exogenously power-structure of such countries to institutionalize Islamic socio-economic enforcement structure, while avoiding the endogenous market process. Yet it is the latter socio-economic structure that induces the most central driving force of the Islamic worldview. That is, the endogenous induction of essential qur’anic knowledge of unity of knowledge, explained by the socio-economic structure of participated complementary in the order of ‘everything’. The qur’anic overarching meaning of maqasid as-shari’ah as the DIVINE WAY is invoked and implicated as the Law of Tawhid. This is explained and continuously sustained as the universal law of unity of knowledge induced by consciousness in ‘everything’, That is the unifying structure of pairing as the regenerative structure of ‘pairing’ in ‘everything’.