Despite being a natural comedian, Moosa says he always wanted to be a doctor.
In many ways, Material has more than a whiff of Moosa's own life-story about it.
Having qualified as a doctor, Moosa admits that his new career is something of a departure.
Malek al Moosa, the hospital's executive director, confirmed that many of the coronavirus patients were treated here.
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Moosa continued with his interview, he seemed to have "forgotten" some of the other core principles of shariah, too.
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Moosa a passing mark, much less a degree at the Darul Ulum Nadwatul.
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Moosa has been outspoken in criticism of the policies his adopted country has taken to deter and fight jihadist terrorism.
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Moosa describes such gags as "hard jokes" but says he should able to extract humor from every aspect of his life.
South Africa's Environmental Minister Vallie Moosa called the vote an "enormous victory for South Africa's sustainable use policies in the international arena".
Like his comedic routines, Moosa has tried to create a piece of art that will resonate with his audience on multiple levels.
Moosa's latest film project, Material, has already been released in South Africa.
See also "Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination, " by Ebrahim Moosa (June 2005) in which he argues that Ghazali's work has lasting relevance today.
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Moosa would have been on more solid ground had he noted that there are not varying "interpretations" of shariah, only varying degrees of application.
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"We have maybe paid the price of being transparent, " by testing patients for the virus and reporting the results to medical authorities, Mr. Moosa said.
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Moosa hopes the underlying themes portrayed in the film of an underdog fighting against the odds and tradition will make it a hit outside South Africa.
In Hofuf on Monday, the guards posted outside the intensive-care unit at the private Al Moosa General Hospital were among the few signs of a medical crisis.
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Mr. Moosa denied that his hospital was the center of the outbreak, however, and denied that it was the only hospital treating patients stricken with the virus.
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Moosa himself is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, some of his public statements, both in the Duke "Office Hours" interview and elsewhere, are in complete alignment with Ikhwan positions.
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In real life, Mr. Moosa left his own medical practice to tell jokes, riffing on topics such as how it feels to board an airplane when fellow passengers think you're there to hijack it.
Moosa told his listening audience during this interview.
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The answers came primarily from Professor Moosa with call-in participation by Professor Hina Azam, a Duke University graduate school graduate who is now an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Moosa might have added that shariah is an all-encompassing Islamic doctrine and system that includes legal, military, political, and social normative dictates by which Muslims everywhere and for all time are commanded to live their lives.
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Moosa and his call-in colleague, Professor Hina Azam, a Duke University graduate, are both no doubt aware, however, neither such punishments nor anything else in shariah can "abrogate themselves over time, " as Azam claimed (with no correction from Moosa).
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On 22 November 2010, Ebrahim Moosa, a South African-born associate professor of Islamic Studies in the Duke University Department of Religion, recorded one of a series of video interviews for the " Office Hours at Duke University " program.
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Moosa, as he launched into a rambling fifteen-minute response that is striking in the main for its studied attempt to avoid tackling any of the report's specific assertions about Islamic law or the threat it poses to American national security.
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Moosa announced at the outset of his interview with Mr. Todd that the public should listen to him rather than the CSP authors "Cause I'm an expert and they are not, " it might be thought that his comments would have been based on the established Islamic law he no doubt studied at Darul Ulum Nadwatul.
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