Mr Ebrahiem Moos
BA Al-Azhar (Cairo) MA Cape Town
Research Interests: African History, in particular the scholarship and the manuscript culture of 19th century West Africa.
Ebrahiem Moos spent five years in Syria at al-Fath Institute and finished his degree at the al-Azhar University in Cairo. He joined the project in 2006 and worked on translations of manuscripts relating to Sufism. He received his Masters degree in Historical Studies from UCT in 2011, with a dissertation focusing on the role of miracles in a work by the renowned scholar Sidi Mukhtar al-Kunti (d. 1811). He currently lectures in Arabic at UCT and teaches at the International Peace College of South Africa (IPSA). His research within the project focuses on translations of texts and manuscripts from the region.
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