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Ebrahim Moosa

Ebrahim Moosa is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, where he specializes in classical and modern Islamic thought with a focus on Islamic law, history, ethics, and theology. Moosa previously taught at the University of Capetown and Stanford University and was named Carnegie Scholar in 2005 to pursue research on the madrasas of South Asia. He is the author of Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination (2005) and editor of the last manuscript of Fazlur Rahman, Revival and Reform in Islam (2000); he also writes the blog Dihliz: The Spaces In-Between. Before entering academia Moosa worked as a journalist in South Africa and the United Kingdom. A native of South Africa, he earned his MA and PhD from the University of Cape Town.

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Traditions

Buddhism Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion based on the spiritual and moral precepts of Siddhārtha Gautama (c. 5th century BCE), an enlightened ...
Christianity Christianity
Christianity is a religious tradition based on the spiritual and ethical teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, whom Christians bel...
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