Putting Everything In Its Proper Place

Author: Kamarudin Abu Bakar

Publisher:  Archiater Studio Sdn Bhd

ISBN: 9786299461104

Weight: 451 g

Pages: 286 pp

Year: 2025

Price: RM70

At its core, this book grapples with the concept of riba — not merely as a banking technicality, but as a window into how systems of exchange shape human relations, values, and ultimately, civilizations.

It examines the logic that underpins modern economics, the worldview that normalizes exploitation, and the intellectual frameworks needed to imagine alternatives.

Drawing on decades navigating IT, telecommunications, and Islamic finance, the author reveals how contemporary "Islamic" institutions often replicate the very structures they claim to oppose.

But this is not a book of answers. It is a book of questions — questions about authenticity, compromise, and what it means to pursue truth in a world built on illusions.

Through the author's journey from Kelantan to Manchester, from boardrooms to philosophical inquiry, readers encounter not prescriptions but reflections: on knowing one's place, on the limits of reform, and on the courage required to walk away from what others call success.

It is a meditation on putting everything — ideas, institutions, and the self — in its proper place.