Ebrahim Moosa

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إبراهيم موسى

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

South African scholar of Islam (born 1957), Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies at the University of Notre Dame, previously at Duke University and the University of Cape Town. Trained at Darul Ulum Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow, he wrote Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination (2005) and What Is a Madrasa? (2015).

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Scholar · writer
Region
Africa · South Asia · Americas & Oceania
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    • Ebrahim Moosa — English Wikipedia
    • Ebrahim Moosa — Wikidata
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