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| Ebrahim Moosa on "Muslims and Social Responsibility - South African Experiences in a Globalised Cont |
| Posted Date: Thursday 13 March 2008 - 13:01:25 |
| Event Date: Friday 14 March 2008 - 20:00:00 |
| Language: English |
| Salaat followed by talk from Ebrahim Moosa on "Muslims and Social Responsibility
- South African Experiences in a Globalised Context"
Speaker Profile: Ebrahim E.I. Moosa is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in Duke University's Department of Religion and Associate Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center. Moosa earned his `alimiyya degree in Islamic and Arabic studies from Darul Uloom Nadwatul `Ulama, one of India's foremost Islamic seminaries in the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He also has a BA degree from Kanpur University, and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the City University in London. He earned his MA (1998) and Ph.D. (1995) from the University of Cape Town. As a journalist he wrote for Arabia: The Islamic World Review, MEED (Middle East Economic Digest) and Afkar/Inquiry magazines in Britain, and later became political writer for the Cape Times in South Africa. He is the author of Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) that won the 2006 American Academy of Religion Best First Book Prize in the History of Religions. He is also editor of the last manuscript of the late Professor Fazlur Rahman, Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism (Oxford: Oneworld, 2000). Moosa examines the way religious traditions encounter modernity and in the process generating new conceptions of history, culture and ethics. Moosa serves on several distinguished international advisory boards and is associated with some of the foremost thinkers, activists and role-players in the Muslim world and beyond. He advised the first independent government after apartheid on Islamic affairs and serves on committees of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in addition to others. He also has extensive experience in human rights activities. He was named Carnegie Scholar for 2005 and received support to pursue research and write a book about the religious seminaries, madrasas in the Muslim world. Mahfil Ali Station Road North Harrow Middlesex HA2 6AG map |
