Ebrahim Moosa, a Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies (AUC) in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana/USA), completed his BA at Kanpur University (India) in 1982, his MA in 1989 and his PhD in 1995 at University of Cape Town (S. Africa). Moosa’s interests span both classical and modern Islamic thought with a special focus on Islamic law, history, ethics and theology. He co-directs Contending Modernities, the global research and education initiative examining the interaction among Catholic, Muslim, and other religious and secular forces in the world. He is a faculty fellow of the Keough School’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. He is the author of “What Is a Madrasa?” (University of No rth Carolina Press, 2015), “Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination” (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) (winner of the American Academy of Religion’s Best First Book in the History of Religions). He is also the co-editor of the books: The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring (Georgetown University Press, 2015); Islam in the Modern World (Routledge, 2014), and “Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges” (Amsterdam University Press, 2010). His book “Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination” was translated to Turkish under the name of “Gazzali ve İmgelem Poe tikası”. Professor Moosa has published in many academic journals and has received several international awards.