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Publications of Ebrahim Moosa    :chronological  combined  by tags  bibtex listing:

Books

  1.  Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination.  University of North Carolina Press, Spring, 2005. [html]  [abs]

Edited Books

  1. Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa & Richard Roberts. Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges. Amsterdam University Press, Spring, 2010: 388. (Introduction pp. 13-60; Muslim Family Law in South Africa: Paradoxes and Ironies, pp. 331-354) [do.php]  [abs]
  2. Fazlur Rahman; Ebrahim Moosa (editor). Revival and Reform: A Study of Islamic Fundementalism. Oxford: Oneworld, 1999. (Introduction, 1-29; Postscript 204-206)

Papers Published

  1. with Aasim I. Padela, Ahsan Arozullah. "Brain Death in Islamic Ethico-Legal Deliberation: Challenges for Applied Islamic Bioethics." Bioethics  (December, 2011). [pdf], [doi]  [abs]
  2. E. Moosa. "Aesthetics and Transcendence in the Arab Uprisings." Middle East Law and Governance 4:3 (October, 2011): 171-180. [art00016], [doi]  [abs]
  3. E. Moosa. "Response to Robert Segal." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74:1 (2007): 172-174.
  4. E. Moosa. "Contrapuntal Readings in Muslim Thought: Translations and Transitions." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74:1 (2006): 107-118.
  5. E. Moosa. "Rejoinder to Paul J. Griffiths’ Response." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74:1 (2006): 122-124.
  6. "The Poetics and Politics of Law after Empire: Reading Women's Rights in the Contestations of Law." Journal for Islamic and Near Eastern Law (JINEL) 1:1 (fall/winter 2001/2002): 1-46.
  7. "The Dilemma of Islamic Rights Schemes." The Journal of Law and Religion xv:1-2 (2000-2001): 185-215.
  8. "Interface of Science and Jurisprudence: Dissonant Gazes at the Body of Modern Muslim Ethics." God, Life and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives  (2002): 329-356.
  9. "Languages of Change in Islamic Law: Redefining Death in Modernity." Islamic Studies 38:3 (1999): 305-342.
  10. "Allegory of the Rule (Hukm): Law As Simulacrum in Islam." History of Religions 38:1 (August, 1998): 1-24.
  11. "Shaykh Ahmad Shakir and the Adoption of a Scientifically-Based Lunar Calendar." Islamic Law & Society 5:1-2 (1998): 57-89.
  12. "The Sufaha in Qur’an Literature: A Problem in Semiosis." Der Islam 75:2 (1998): 1-27.
  13. "Worlds ‘Apart’:The Tabligh Jamat under Apartheid 1963-1993."  reproduced in Muhammad Khalid Masud (ed.) Travellers in Faith: Studies of the Tabligh Jamat as a Transnational Islamic Movement for Faith Renewal (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000), 206-221 Journal for Islamic Studies 17 (1997): 28-48.

Papers Submitted

  1. E. Moosa. "Between Principle and Pragmatism: Genealogies of Constitutionalism in Muslim Minority Politics." Islam and Constitutionalism  (Fall, Fall, 2008).
  2. E. Moosa. "The Child in Muslim Moral Imaginaries: Children’s Rights in Islamic Law." Rights of the Child  (2008).

Articles in a Collection

  1. E. Moosa. "The Law in the Alchemy of the Self: Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī." Great Muslim Jurists Ed. David Powers, Susan Spectorsky & Oussama Arabi. Brill, 2011.
  2. with Ali A. Mian. "Islam." Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics Ed. Ruth Chadwick. SecondAcademic Press, 2011, 769-776. [9780123736321]
  3. E. Moosa. "Muslim Ethics and Biotechnology." Routledge Companion to Religion and Science Ed. James W. Haag, Gregory R. Peterson & Michael L. Spezio. Routledge, 2011, 455-465. [available here]
  4. E. Moosa. "The Spirit of Islamic Humanism." The Humanist Imperative in South Africa Ed. John W. de Gruchy. Sun Press, 2011, 106-116. [aspx]
  5. E. Moosa. "Muslim Family Law in South Africa: Paradoxes and Ironies." Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges Ed. Shamil Jeppie, Ebrahim Moosa & Richard Roberts. Amsterdam University Press, Spring, Spring, 2010, 331-354.  [abs]
  6. E. Moosa. "History and Normativity in Traditional Indian Muslim Thought: Reading Shari`a Hermeneutics of Qari Muhammad Tayyab (d. 1983)." Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism Ed. Carl W. Ernst & Richard C. Martin. University of South Carolina Press, 2010, 281-301.
  7. E. Moosa. "Colonialism and Islamic Law." Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates Ed. Muhammad Khalid Masud, Armando Salvatore & Martin van Bruinessen. Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 158-181.  [abs]
  8. E. Moosa. "Shariat Governance in Colonial and Post Colonial India." Islam in South Asia in Practice Ed. Barbara Metcalf. Princeton University Press, 2009, 317-325.  [abs]
  9. E. Moosa. "Genetically Modified Foods and Muslim Ethics." Acceptable Genes Ed. Conrad G. Brunk & Harold Coward. SUNY Press, 2009, 135-157.  [abs]
  10. E. Moosa. "“I modelli della tradizione: gli ulema e il concetto di normatività nell’islam contemporaneo” trans into Italian (Modalities of Tradition: The `ulama and the Concept of Legitimacy in Modern Islam)." Le religioni e il mondo moderno a cura di Giovanni Filoramo iii Islam Ed. Roberto Tottolli. Torino:Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., 2009, 514-522.
  11. with Aaron L. Mackler, Allen Verhey, Anne Carolyn Klein & Kurt Peters. "Spiritual and Religious Concepts of Nature." Altering Naure: Concepts of 'Nature' and the 'Natural' in Biotechnology Debates Ed. Lustig, B.A., Brody, B.A., McKenny, G.P.. Springer, 2008, 13-62.
  12. E. Moosa. "Social Change." The Islamic World (Routledge Worlds) Ed. Andrew Rippin. 2008, 565-575.
  13. E. Moosa. "Neuropolitics and the Body." Religion and Society: An Agenda for the 21st Century Ed. Gerrie ter Haar & Yoshio Tsuruoka. Brill, Fall, Fall, 2007, 47-59.
  14. E. Moosa. "Transitions in the 'Progress' of Civilization: Theorizing History, Practice, and Tradition." Voices of Change Ed. Omid Safi & Vincent J. Cornell. Voices of IslamPraeger, Spring, Spring, 2007, 115-130.
  15.  "The Unbearable Intimacy of Language and Thought: Aporetic Discourses in Imagining Religion in Islam." How Should We Talk About Religion Ed. James Boyd White. University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
  16.  "Qadi." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World Ed. Richard Martin. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.
  17.  "Muslim Ethics." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ethics Ed. William Schweiker. Blackwell, 2004.
  18.  "Ethics and Social Issues." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World Ed. Richard Martin. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004, 224-231.
  19.  "Loyalty." Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an Ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2003, 237-242.
  20.  "Sunni and Shi‘a." Encyclopedia of Ethics Ed. Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte C. Becker. Routledge, 2001, 1579-1580; 1672-1673.
  21.  "Tensions in Legal and Religious Values in the 1996 South African Constitution." Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk: Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture Ed. Mahmood Mamdani. Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, 2000, 121-135.

Reviews

  1. Ebrahim Moosa. "Islamic Reform or Designer Fundamentalism? Review Essay of Tariq Ramadan’s Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003)." Georgetown Journal of International Affairs  (Winter, 2006): 139-144.
  2. E. Moosa. "Vartan Gregorian: Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith. Brookings Institution Press, 2003." Journal of the American Academy of Religion  vol. 74 no. 4 (2006).
  3. "Abdolkarim Soroush, Reason, Freedom, & Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)." Iranian Studies: Bulletin of the Society for Iranian Cultural and Social Studies  vol. 37 no. 3 (September, 2004): 547-552.
  4. Muhammad Sa'id al-Ashmawy. ""Against Islamic Extremism: The Writings of Muhammad Sa'id al-'Ashmawy." International Journal of Middle East Studies. Edited by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban.  (2003).
  5. Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee. ""Theories of Islamic Law (Islamic Research Institute & International Institute of Islamic Thought)." Journal for Islamic Studies  vol. 18-19 (2003): 132-139.
  6. "Abdullah Saeed: Islamic Banking and Interest (Leiden: Brill 1996)." Reigious Studies Review  vol. 26 (2000): 290.
  7. "Islam in Europe: The Politics of Religion and Community." Politikon. Edited by Steven Vertovec & Ceri Peach.  vol. 27 no. 1 (2000): 167-170.
  8. Brannon Wheeler. ""Applying the Canon in Islam." Journal of the American Academy of Religion  vol. 67 no. 4 (December, 1999).

Op Ed Pieces

  1. E. Moosa. "Inside the Madrasa: A Personal History." Boston Review  (January, January, 2007).
  2. "Law is Meant for Mortals, Does Islamic Law advocate Polygamy or Monogamy." New Straits Times (Malaysia)  (April 13, 2003).
  3. "Iraq Invasion is First Crusade of the 21st Century." New Straits Times (Malaysia)  (March 21, 2003).
  4. "Bush's War Against Islam is Real."  Reprinted in several Knight Ridder publications Herald-Sun  (December 17, 2002).
  5. "Unfair to Direct Blame at Islam." Atlanta Journal-Constitution  (November 7, 2002).
  6. "Muslims Must not be Apologists for Terror." Atlanta Journal-Constitution  (October 14, 2001).
  7. Ebrahim Moosa. "Bush’s War Against Islam is Real."  reprinted in several Knight Ridder publications Herald-Sun  (December, December 17, 2002).
  8. Ebrahim Moosa. "Unfair to Direct Blame at Islam." Atlanta Journal-Constitution  (November, November 7, 2002).
  9. "Muslims Must not be Apologists for Terror." Atlanta Journal-Constitution  (October, October 14, 2001).

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