Ebrahim Moosa to lecture on “Re-Thinking Modern Muslim Discursivities" on February 3rd
The Department of Religious Studies and the Technologies of the Self in Islam reading group is proud to present Ebrahim Moosa, Associate Professor Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion at Duke University. Professor Moosa’s lecture, “Re-Thinking Modern Muslim Discursivities: Counterpoints, Dilemmas and Politics,” is scheduled for Thursday, February 3rd at 5:00pm in Hale 270.
Professor Moosa is interested in both classical and modern Islamic thought with a particular interest in Islamic law, history, and theology. He 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). Currently, Professor Moosa is completing a book titled Muslim Self Revived: Ethics, Rights and Technology after Empire, and continuing work on another book, titled Between Right and Wrong: Debating Muslim Ethics. In these writings Professor Moosa examines the way religious traditions encounter modernity and how these encounters impact understandings of history, culture, and ethics.
In advance of Professor Moosa’s visit, and under the guidance of Professor Ruth Mas, a group of graduate students in Religious Studies formed the Technologies of the Self in Islam reading group. The group has been carefully and critically analyzing Professor Moosa’s award winning text on Ghazali, with a special eye towards his discussion of Islamic technologies of the self, the formation of new and alternative Muslim subjectivities, and future of the discursive tradition of Islam vis-a-vis Ghazali’s intellectual legacy. The reading group is comprised of Ian Guthrie, Angela Maly, John Thibdeau, and Andreas VanDenend.