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| Name | Muna Bilgrami | |||||||||||
| Title | Professor | Associate Professor | Doctor | Mr | Mrs
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| 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 | January 2016 | |||||||||||
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| Research interests | Contemporary Sufism, Qur’anic Studies. | |||||||||||
| Areas of supervision of M- and D-students | ||||||||||||
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| Email address | 216010946@student.uj.ac.za | |||||||||||
| ONLY Ph.D. candidates | ||||||||||||
| Title of dissertation | [Tentative] The Seeker and the Sought: Living the Sufi teachings of a late modern Sufi Master. | |||||||||||
| Name of Supervisor | Prof Farid Esack | |||||||||||
| Description of research | The teachings of a contemporary Sufi Master in South Africa with a transnational following and how specifically two main areas (Scriptural exegesis & the Sufi model of self & beingness) are applied by his students. | |||||||||||
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| Previous degrees and name(s) of institution obtained | MA Islamic Societies and Culture, SOAS; BA in Arabic with minor in Persian, UT Austin. | |||||||||||