Assalamualaikum WBT, SIRI TAZKIRAH MAGHRIB DI KEDIAMAN DATO SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM DSAI menjemput Sdr/Sdri untuk bersama di majlis tazkirah maghrib oleh Dr. Ebrahim Moosa & Sheikh Muhammad Nurudeen Lemu di kediaman beliau di Bukit Segambut pada: 7 DISEMBER 2014 (AHAD), Jam 7.00 mlm. Kediaman DSAI: 11, Jalan 3/61,Bukit Segambut Dalam, 51200 KL. 1) Ebrahim E.I. Moosa is Professor of Religious and Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies. His interests span both classical and modern Islamic thought with a special focus on Islamic law, history, ethics and theology. Dr Moosa is the author of Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, winner of the American Academy of Religions 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. He was named Carnegie Scholar in 2005 to pursue research on the madrasas, Islamic seminaries of South Asia. Born in South Africa, Dr. Moosa earned his MA (1989) and PhD (1995) from the University of Cape Town. Prior to that he took the `alimiyya degree in Islamic and Arabic studies from Darul Ulum Nadwatul `Ulama, one of Indias foremost Islamic seminaries in the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He also has a BA degree from Kanpur University, and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the City University in London. Previously he taught at the University of Cape Towns Department of Religious Studies in South Africa till 1998 and was visiting professor at Stanford University 1998-2001 prior to joining Duke University. As a journalist he wrote for Arabia: The Islamic World Review, MEED (Middle East Economic Digest) and Afkar/Inquiry magazines in Britain, and later became political writer for the Cape Times in South Africa. He contributes regularly to the op-ed pages of the New York Times, Atlanta-Journal Constitution, The Boston Review and several international publications and is frequently invited to comment on global Islamic affairs. Currently he is completing a book titled What is a Madrasa? Also under construction are two books on ethics: Muslim Self Revived: Ethics, Rights and Technology after Empire and another title, Between Right and Wrong: Debating Muslim Ethics (Wiley). In these writings Moosa explores some of the major challenges that confront a tradition-in-the making like Islam , in a rapidly changing world. Moosa examines the way religious traditions encounter modernity and in the process generating new conceptions of history, culture and ethics. Dr. Moosa serves on several distinguished international advisory boards and is associated with some of the foremost thinkers, activists and role-players in the Muslim world and beyond. He advised the first independent South African government after apartheid on Islamic affairs and serves on committees of the Organization of Islamic Conference in addition to others. He also has extensive experience in human rights activities. He has received grants from the Ford Foundation to research contemporary Muslim ethics and issues of philanthropy in the Muslim world. For further details and access to research materials please visit Dr Moosa’s website ebrahimmoosa 2) Sheikh Muhammad Nurudeen Lemu is the assistant general secretary of the Islamic Education Trust, Minna, Niger State. He also serves as assistant director and research supervisor at the Dawah Institute of Nigeria, technical adviser to the Nigerian Environmental Society Niger State and adviser to the Voice of the Voiceless Network, Minna. Lemu has worked at the Liberian Refugee Camp, Ogun State, the International Islamic Charitable Organization, and at the Noor Al-Houda Islamic College in Sydney, Australia. PEJABAT DATO SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM
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