Department of Religious Studies and Arabic
Prof MA Rafudeen
| College of Human Sciences | |
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| School of Humanities | |
| Department: Religious Studies and Arabic | |
| Chair | |
| Tel: | 012 429 6307 |
| E-mail: | rafudma@unisa.ac.za |
Qualifications
BA, BA Hons, MA, PhD (University of Cape Town)
Fields of academic interests
- Sufism in South Africa
- Religion and the secular
Field of Specialisation
Religion and modernity, Islam in South Africa, Contemporary Islamic thought
Books
Book chapters:
- Auwais Rafudeen [translator] The 'Aqidah of Tuan Guru. By Tuan Guru ‘Abdullah ibn Qāḍī ‘Abdus Salām. Samandar Publications, Cape Town, 2004
- *Yousuf Dadoo and Auwais Rafudeen, A. (translators), 2015, “Introduction” and “Issues pertaining to Belief” in The Way of the True Salaf: Theory and Application, by Sayyid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alawī al-Mālikī,,Edited by Shafiq Morton, International Peace College South Africa, Cape Town, pp 26-120.
- *Dadoo, Y and Rafudeen A. (eds) Spiritual Path, Spiritual Reality: Selected writings of Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2019.
Journal articles
Last 5 years:
Auwais Rafudeen, 2018, “Resisting the statist reduction of the self: on the effects of Shaykh Yusuf’s anti-politics”, Alternation , Special edition 23
Auwais Rafudeen, 2019, “Time and religious practice in Islam: Reflections on a theme of Tala Asad’s”, The Islamic Quarterly, 63 [1], 67-84
Auwais Rafudeen, 2020, “Theorizing Sunniyat as a mode of being: An Asadian perspective from South Africa”, Islamic Africa, 11, 2020, 94-133
Auwais Rafudeen, 2021, “COVID-19 as archetype rather than event: Thinking COVID-19 in the light of Eliade’s ‘terror of history’” HTS Theological Studies, 77, Issue 2
Auwais Rafudeen, 2021, “COVID 19 as archetype rather than event: Thinking COVID-19 in the light of Eliade’s ‘terror of history’” HTS Theological Studies, 77, Issue 2
Auwais Rafudeen, 2022, “Cultivating the worshipful self in an algorithmic age: Reflections on an Asadian conclusion’” HTS Theological Studies, 78, Issue 4
Auwais Rafudeen, 2022, “Perceptions of Race Among “Sunni” Black Muslims in Laudium, Pretoria: Applying Insights of Talal Asad in South Africa” , Journal of Muslim
Minority Affairs, Volume 42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2022.2113288
Auwais Rafudeen, 2023, “Abdul Hadi’s translations of Ahmad Raza: An internal logics approach” HTS Theological Studies, 79, Issue 1
Paper presentations
Last 5 years:
Conference presentation, 2018, “Agrama, Mbiti and the biographical time of tradition”, Decolonization and Re-Afrikanisation: A conversation, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 7 August.
Conference presentation, 2018, “Resisting the statist reduction of the self: on the effects of Shaykh Yusuf’s anti-politics”, African Studies Association of the UK, University of Birmingham, 11 September
Seminar presentation, 2019, Department of Religious Studies and Arabic, Unisa, Sunniyat in Pretoria: Some reflections from an Asadian perspective, 12 March.
Conference presentation, 2019, “What sustains a mosque? The case of the Jumuah Masjid, Laudium, Pretoria”, Association for the Study of Religion in South Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 4 September.
Conference presentation, 2021, “Cultivating the worshipful self in an algorithmic age: reflections on an Asadian conclusion”, The Second Civilizations Forum: A Posthuman Age? Science, Technology and the Future of Civilizations. A 2-day virtual conference & Workshops hosted by Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 1-2 May.
Conference presentation, 2021, “Perceptions of race among “Sunni” Black Muslims in Laudium, Pretoria”, Association for the Study of Religion in South Africa, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, 15-16 September.
Conference presentation, 2022, “On Abdul Hadi’s translations of Ahmad Raza: some implications for the humanities”, Association for the Study of Religion in South Africa, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 12-13 October.
Seminar presentation (with Naeem Khan), 2023, Department of Religious Studies and Arabic, Unisa, “A language of the heart : the history and teachings of the Chisty Sabiree Jahangiri Sufi order in South Africa”, 26th April
Conference presentation, 2023, “The Significance of the Rediscovery of the
Islamic Classics: Ahmed El Shamsy and the transformation of An intellectual tradition” , presented at the conference: Manufacturing religions: From Christian origins to classical Islam, hosted by the New Testament and Early Christian Studies Unit, Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 30 June-1 July.