Ebrahim Moosa
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 106172 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ebrahim Moosa |
| PRENOMES | Ebrahim |
| SOBRENOME | Moosa |
| ASSINATURA | MOOSA E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8375-0135 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Gaza and Muslim Political Theology
Gaza is an ongoing catastrophe that exposes the moral, juridical, and political failures of the modern order. This article diagnoses this failure through Muslim political theology, revealing how the post–World War II international humanitarian regime manages suffering while deferring accountability and structural redress – thereby converting justice into spectacle. Drawing on the author’s earlier critique of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliatio…
The Prophetic in Constructive Muslim Theology
Decolonizing the Politics of Love
This article invites a consideration of more diverse conceptions of love. It proposes as a contribution specific Islamic forms of love, especially those theorized by the medieval Muslim theologian, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). The goal is to decolonize the concept of love from dominant Christocentric notions of agape and redemptive forms of love that shape interfaith dialogue. It argues why we need to explore and take account of different conc…
Dialogues
The past five years have witnessed an increased interest in a dialogue between anthropology and theology, evidenced in part by a suite of edited volumes (e.g. Lauterbach & Vähäkangas 2020; Lemons 2018; Tomlinson & Mathews 2018). Analyses informed by this interdisciplinary nexus have demonstrated the utility of theological concepts for anthropological inquiry (e.g. Robbins 2020; Tomlinson 2020; Williams Green 2021). The following series of dialogu…
Modern Things on Trial
Leor Halevi’s Modern Things on Trial is a worthy exploration of Muslim moral and ethical practices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as viewed through the prism of a select number of scholarly opinions, called fatwas. The fatwas were issued by Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā, a Syrian émigré to Egypt who is counted among an influential group of traditionally trained Muslim reformers of this time. His supporters state that Riḍā perpetuated…
Interrogating Healthy Conflict
The need to turn an enemy into an adversary is an ethical obligation. I try to show that this obligation has multiple religious and philosophical resources. The ethical imperative also requires us to not overstate and magnify any problem at hand to the point that it becomes insurmountable and enmity becomes an end in itself. I do ask the question whether Springs thinks of Colin Kaepernick’s peaceful protest by taking the knee at football games as…
The Imperatives of Progressive Islam
With the proliferation of transnational Muslim networks over the last two decades, the religious authority of traditionally educated Muslim scholars, the uluma, has come under increasing scrutiny and disruption. These networks have provided a public space for multiple perspectives on Islam to be voiced, allowing "progressive" Islamic worldviews to flourish alongside more (neo)traditional outlooks. This book brings together the scholarship of lead…
The Making of Salafism
It is easy to label religious phenomena and practices as Protestant, Catholic, evangelical, ṣūfī, Sunnī, or Shīʿa, conservative or reformed without saying anything of value. Often the very act of naming can cause a religious trend or tradition to lose all nuance. This insight could not be more applicable to the multiple forms of Islamic reform in the modern world, where fractures and fragments of traditions and social reality produces incoherence…
Technology in Muslim Moral Philosophy
The Human Person in Iqbal’s Thought
Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age
Journal Article Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism. By Muhammad Qasim Zaman Get access Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism. By Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 363 pages. $32.99. Ebrahim Moosa Ebrahim Moosa University of Notre Dame [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
On Reading S hāṭibī in R abat and T unis
AAR Centennial Roundtable
THE AMERICAN LECTURES IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS (ALHR) boasts an illustrious record of lecturers and publications that stretches back to 1898. Some of the most important books to result from the lectures include ground-breaking and still popular works such as Peter Brown's The Body and Society (1988), Carolyn Walker Bynum's The Resurrection of the Body (1995), Wendy Doniger's The Implied Spider (updated 2011), and Bruce Lawrence's New Faiths, O…
In Memoriam
The Ethical Soundscape
This is an original study of homiletics (kha⃛āba) during the heyday of Islamic revival (saḥwa Islāmiyya) in Egypt, a religious practice that survived the reign of the now deposed Hosni Mubarak. The sermons, one suspects, were delivered during the late 1980s or perhaps 1990s. It is an ambitious project: it aims to identify what kind of politics are involved in the dual performances of preaching and listening, especially in order to gauge the impac…
Muslim American Terrorism Since 9/11
The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts
Aesthetics and Transcendence in the Arab Uprisings
Politics is regarded as a science for it tells us what to do, when it deals with measurable concepts. But politics is also an art—a form of practice, telling us how and when to do things. Lest we forget, the arts of persuasion and inspiration are part of politics. And, every art also produces an aesthetic. By aesthetics I mean, the ways by which we think about art: recall, art is what we do and how we do things. Th ose things and acts that become…
Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa
Table of Contents[-] - 6[-]List of Maps and Figures[-] - 8[-]Preface - 10[-]Introduction - 14[-]1 A legal and historical excursus of Muslim Personal law in the Colonial Cape, south africa, eighteenth to[-]twentieth Century - 64[-]2. Custom and Muslim Family law in the native Courts of the French Soudan, 1905-1912[-] - 86[-]3. Conflicts and tensions in the appointment of Chief Kadhi[-]in Colonial Kenya 1898-1960s - 110[-]4. Obtaining Freedom at th…
Colonialism and Islamic Law
Response to Robert Segal
Journal Article Response to Robert Segal Get access Ebrahim Moosa Ebrahim Moosa Duke University, Durham, NC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 172–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfj052 Published: 22 January 2006
Rejoinder to Paul J. Griffiths’ Response
I APPRECIATE PROFESSOR GRIFFITHS’ CRITICAL provocations and comments on my essay. Even if he is unfamiliar with my work or that of al-Ghazali, I thank him for raising pertinent questions in order to sustain a conversation. I was unable to decipher whether Griffiths seriously mourned the passing of Religionswissenschaft despite growing evidence of its limitations or whether he was just playing devil’s advocate. My essay inflected the syntax of tra…
Contrapuntal Readings in Muslim Thought
A diverse and cosmopolitan world, in the best sense of the terms, requires the production of knowledge that will sustain such complexity. Central to such a goal is to ask how we relate to formative documents and exemplars located in a distant past. Historians and interpreters have identified the reading of texts as one of the major challenges. The demands of continuity within traditions and commitment to canons while also being open to creativity…
Travellers in Faith
The Tablīghī Jamā‘at is a twentieth century faith renewal movement, which is presently operating in more than eighty countries. With millions of participants, its annual conference has become the second largest Muslim congregation after the Hajj. In the absence of official writings and its abstinence from media publicity, the Jamā‘at can best be studied by participant observation, as illustrated by the studies of its activities in India, Britain,…
Travellers in Faith
Muslim American Terrorism Since 9/11
Dialogues
The past five years have witnessed an increased interest in a dialogue between anthropology and theology, evidenced in part by a suite of edited volumes (e.g. Lauterbach & Vähäkangas 2020; Lemons 2018; Tomlinson & Mathews 2018). Analyses informed by this interdisciplinary nexus have demonstrated the utility of theological concepts for anthropological inquiry (e.g. Robbins 2020; Tomlinson 2020; Williams Green 2021). The following series of dialogu…
Allegory of the Rule (Ḥukm)
Aesthetics and Transcendence in the Arab Uprisings
Politics is regarded as a science for it tells us what to do, when it deals with measurable concepts. But politics is also an art—a form of practice, telling us how and when to do things. Lest we forget, the arts of persuasion and inspiration are part of politics. And, every art also produces an aesthetic. By aesthetics I mean, the ways by which we think about art: recall, art is what we do and how we do things. Th ose things and acts that become…
The Ethical Soundscape
This is an original study of homiletics (kha⃛āba) during the heyday of Islamic revival (saḥwa Islāmiyya) in Egypt, a religious practice that survived the reign of the now deposed Hosni Mubarak. The sermons, one suspects, were delivered during the late 1980s or perhaps 1990s. It is an ambitious project: it aims to identify what kind of politics are involved in the dual performances of preaching and listening, especially in order to gauge the impac…
Contrapuntal Readings in Muslim Thought
A diverse and cosmopolitan world, in the best sense of the terms, requires the production of knowledge that will sustain such complexity. Central to such a goal is to ask how we relate to formative documents and exemplars located in a distant past. Historians and interpreters have identified the reading of texts as one of the major challenges. The demands of continuity within traditions and commitment to canons while also being open to creativity…
Islam and Civil Society in South Africa
Somehow, apartheid brought with it unexpected benefits, such asthe formation of an effective civil society. In addition to the fact thatSouth Africa currently enjoys a preferential status in the internationalcommunity, over the decades state-driven apartheid was resisted by astrong civil society and mass-based organizations. There may be somevalidity to the argument that since the inception of a peaceful transitionto democracy, community-based or…
Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir and the Adoption of a Scientifically-Based Lunar Calendar
The computation of the Muslim lunar calendar has been a subject of controversy for centuries. In the twentieth century, the debate surfaced again in different parts of the Muslim world. In Egypt, the distinguished jurist Aḥmad Shākir added his voice to the debate by writing a short treatise or risāla in which he argued that a calendar based on crescent sighting should be abandoned in favour of one based on scientific and astronomical computation.…
Allegory of the Rule (Ḥukm)
Languages of Change in Islamic Law
Travellers in Faith
The Tablīghī Jamā‘at is a twentieth century faith renewal movement, which is presently operating in more than eighty countries. With millions of participants, its annual conference has become the second largest Muslim congregation after the Hajj. In the absence of official writings and its abstinence from media publicity, the Jamā‘at can best be studied by participant observation, as illustrated by the studies of its activities in India, Britain,…
Travellers in Faith
The Dilemma of Islamic Rights Schemes
The gulf in perception between Islamic and secular perspectives over the meaning of human rights is growing. Media reports and western governments repeatedly charge Muslim governments from Sudan to Iran of human rights violations. In some parts of the Muslim world, a string of events indeed suggest that the violation of human rights continue with little sign of immediate abatement. Tragedy is the overriding topos of the media attention that such …
Worlds ‘Apart’
Response to Robert Segal
Journal Article Response to Robert Segal Get access Ebrahim Moosa Ebrahim Moosa Duke University, Durham, NC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 172–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfj052 Published: 22 January 2006
Rejoinder to Paul J. Griffiths’ Response
I APPRECIATE PROFESSOR GRIFFITHS’ CRITICAL provocations and comments on my essay. Even if he is unfamiliar with my work or that of al-Ghazali, I thank him for raising pertinent questions in order to sustain a conversation. I was unable to decipher whether Griffiths seriously mourned the passing of Religionswissenschaft despite growing evidence of its limitations or whether he was just playing devil’s advocate. My essay inflected the syntax of tra…
Contrapuntal Readings in Muslim Thought
A diverse and cosmopolitan world, in the best sense of the terms, requires the production of knowledge that will sustain such complexity. Central to such a goal is to ask how we relate to formative documents and exemplars located in a distant past. Historians and interpreters have identified the reading of texts as one of the major challenges. The demands of continuity within traditions and commitment to canons while also being open to creativity…
Colonialism and Islamic Law
Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa
Table of Contents[-] - 6[-]List of Maps and Figures[-] - 8[-]Preface - 10[-]Introduction - 14[-]1 A legal and historical excursus of Muslim Personal law in the Colonial Cape, south africa, eighteenth to[-]twentieth Century - 64[-]2. Custom and Muslim Family law in the native Courts of the French Soudan, 1905-1912[-] - 86[-]3. Conflicts and tensions in the appointment of Chief Kadhi[-]in Colonial Kenya 1898-1960s - 110[-]4. Obtaining Freedom at th…
Muslim American Terrorism Since 9/11
The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts
Aesthetics and Transcendence in the Arab Uprisings
Politics is regarded as a science for it tells us what to do, when it deals with measurable concepts. But politics is also an art—a form of practice, telling us how and when to do things. Lest we forget, the arts of persuasion and inspiration are part of politics. And, every art also produces an aesthetic. By aesthetics I mean, the ways by which we think about art: recall, art is what we do and how we do things. Th ose things and acts that become…
The Ethical Soundscape
This is an original study of homiletics (kha⃛āba) during the heyday of Islamic revival (saḥwa Islāmiyya) in Egypt, a religious practice that survived the reign of the now deposed Hosni Mubarak. The sermons, one suspects, were delivered during the late 1980s or perhaps 1990s. It is an ambitious project: it aims to identify what kind of politics are involved in the dual performances of preaching and listening, especially in order to gauge the impac…
On Reading S hāṭibī in R abat and T unis
AAR Centennial Roundtable
THE AMERICAN LECTURES IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS (ALHR) boasts an illustrious record of lecturers and publications that stretches back to 1898. Some of the most important books to result from the lectures include ground-breaking and still popular works such as Peter Brown's The Body and Society (1988), Carolyn Walker Bynum's The Resurrection of the Body (1995), Wendy Doniger's The Implied Spider (updated 2011), and Bruce Lawrence's New Faiths, O…
In Memoriam
The Human Person in Iqbal’s Thought
Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age
Journal Article Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism. By Muhammad Qasim Zaman Get access Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism. By Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 363 pages. $32.99. Ebrahim Moosa Ebrahim Moosa University of Notre Dame [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Technology in Muslim Moral Philosophy
The Imperatives of Progressive Islam
With the proliferation of transnational Muslim networks over the last two decades, the religious authority of traditionally educated Muslim scholars, the uluma, has come under increasing scrutiny and disruption. These networks have provided a public space for multiple perspectives on Islam to be voiced, allowing "progressive" Islamic worldviews to flourish alongside more (neo)traditional outlooks. This book brings together the scholarship of lead…
The Making of Salafism
It is easy to label religious phenomena and practices as Protestant, Catholic, evangelical, ṣūfī, Sunnī, or Shīʿa, conservative or reformed without saying anything of value. Often the very act of naming can cause a religious trend or tradition to lose all nuance. This insight could not be more applicable to the multiple forms of Islamic reform in the modern world, where fractures and fragments of traditions and social reality produces incoherence…
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