Ibn Rushd Centre of Excellence for Islamic Research

Prof. Alija Audukic is Professor of Political Economy and Islamic Finance at the University of Dundee, School of Business. He has a BA in Islamic studies from the prestigious University of Al-Azhar (Egypt) and a BA from the University of Damascus (Syria). After his undergraduate degrees, he pursued postgraduate study, earning an MA in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management from the University of Gloucestershire. He completed his PhD in Islamic Political Economy and Finance at the University of Durham.

Prof. Avdukic teaches and supervises research on Islamic Political Economy; Islamic Moral Economy; Islamic Banking, Finance and Management; Political Economy of Development in the Muslim world and Islamic studies-related subjects. He is Deputy Director of the MSc Islamic Finance programme at the University of Dundee; Visiting Professor for the Master’s programme in Islamic banking and finance for the joint programme between the School of Economics, University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and the University of Bolton (UK). He is also a visiting research fellow at the Durham Centre in Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance (UK).

His research includes the theoretical construction of Islamic moral/political economy as guiding theory for Islamic finance. Building on earlier post-colonial contributions from scholars from the sub-continent, Prof. Avdukic aims to systematise Islamic political economy as the defining framework for the moral or social economy. He also develops the discourse on the social and developmental failures of Islamic charitable and financial sectors in relation to the expressed ideals of the Islamic moral economy. Prof. Avdukic also conducts empirical research on various aspects of Islamic economics and finance.