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Ebrahim Moosa

Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies

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Office
4151 Jenkins Nanovic HallsUniversity of Notre DameNotre Dame, IN 46556
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
(574) 631-1204
Email
emoosa1@nd.edu

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Global religion and human development; classical and modern Islamic thought

At the Keough School

Ebrahim Moosa is Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and a core-affiliated faculty member of the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement With Religion.

He  co-directs, with Scott Appleby and Atalia Omer, Contending Modernities, the global research and education initiative examining the interaction among Catholic, Muslim, and other religious and secular forces in the world. He is a faculty fellow of the Keough School's Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. 

He has a Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town.

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Research and Publications

Moosa's interests span both classical and modern Islamic thought with a special focus on Islamic law, history, ethics and theology. His book What Is a Madrasa? was published in 2015 by the University of North Carolina Press. Moosa also is the author of Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, winner of the American Academy of Religion’s Best First Book in the History of Religions (2006) and editor of the last manuscript of the late Professor Fazlur Rahman, Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism. Other publications also include the co-edited book The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring (Georgetown University Press, 2015); Islam in the Modern World (Routledge, 2014), and Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges, (Amsterdam University Press, Spring, 2010).

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Biography

Moosa holds a joint appointment in Notre Dame's Department of History. He came to Notre Dame in the fall of 2014 from Duke University, where he taught in the Department of Religious Studies for 13 years. He previously taught in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town (1989-1998) and in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University (1998-2001). In 2005, Moosa was named a Carnegie Scholar to pursue research on Islamic seminaries of South Asia. Born in South Africa, Moosa earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cape Town. He also holds a degree in Islamic and Arabic studies from Darul Ulum Nadwatul `Ulama in Lucknow, India, a B.A. degree from Kanpur University, and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the City University in London.

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