Book Review

Ghazali, Justice and Social Justice

Abstract

Justice, particularly social justice is one of the most significant challenges in today’s capitalist system based world. More and more scholars and researchers are stressing on social finance as an alternative to the existing financial system where wealth is accumulated in hands of a minority and causes a hostile relationship among the people. Sabri Orman’s timely book titled “Ghazali, Justice and Social Justice” elaborates the concept of justice referring to the works of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058- 1111). The author eloborates the concept of social justice in five different dimensions namely, priority and advancement of social; individual and justice, public and justice, government and justice, social with double-subject and double-sanction. In this book review, the reader will be introduced to each of the above mentioned
segments.