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About Mr Nadeem Mahomed
| Name | Nadeem Mahomed | ||||||||||||
| Title | Professor | Associate Professor | Doctor | Mr | X | Mrs | Ms | ||||||
| Position in the department (e.g. Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, Post-doctorate student, PhD-candidate, Dept. Assistant, etc.) | PhD Candidate | ||||||||||||
| Date since involvement in the department | 2010 | ||||||||||||
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| Description of current research project | Muslim minorities | ||||||||||||
| Research interests | Muslim minorities, contemporary Islam, religion and gender and sexuality, philosophy of religion, Muslims and law in minority contexts | ||||||||||||
| Areas of supervision of M- and D-students | |||||||||||||
| Title(s) and date(s) of FIVE (5) most recent publication(s) | Sexual Diversity, Islamic Jurisprudence and Sociality, Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa, Vol. 17 No 2, 2011 (co-author)
Between ‘Yes’ and ‘No’: Amina Wadud and Scriptural Imperatives, Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa Vol. 18 No. 2, 2012
The Worth of a Traditional Tutelage, Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol 33, 2013
The Normal and Abnormal: On the Politics of Being Muslim and Relating to Same-Sex Sexuality, Journal for the American Academy of Religion, 2016 (co-author) | ||||||||||||
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| Email address | nmahomed@gmail.com | ||||||||||||
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| Title of dissertation | On the Margins of Faith: A Critical Historical Study of the Minority Ahmadi Muslim Community of Cape Town | ||||||||||||
| Name of Supervisor | Prof Farid Esack | ||||||||||||
| Description of research | My thesis will address the lack of scholarly works concerning the history of the Ahmadi Muslim community located in Cape Town, South Africa. It will focus on a critical historical study of the Ahmadi community, the engagement between the Ahmadi community and other Muslims and the issue of religious identity and apostasy in the Muslim community and the law in apartheid South Africa. | ||||||||||||
| Funding received (100 words) | University of Johannesburg Internal Bursaries SAHUDA Bursary | ||||||||||||
| Previous degrees and name(s) of institution obtained | MA Religion Studies (UJ) Hons Religion Studies (UJ) LLB (Wits) BA (Wits) | ||||||||||||