ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the scholarship of Ebrahim Moosa, a major theoretician behind progressive Muslim thought, and employ it as a theoretical lens through which to describe an important feature of progressive Muslim thought here termed the 'poiesis imperative'. It discusses the main contours and general themes which underpin Moosa's scholarship, especially in relation to how they have contributed to the emergence and development of progressive Muslim thought. However, Moosa's important contribution to theorizing many of the fundamental aspects of progressive Muslim thought, the chapter will, it is hoped, serve as an optimal introduction to most of the other major aspects of progressive Muslim thought are expounded. Moosa is agonistic about the moniker 'progressive'. Moosa's thought addresses the philosophical divide between modernism and postmodernism in relation to the study of religion. Moosa's scholarship on Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (d.1111 CE) as paragon of poiesis in classical Islam and his relevance for contemporary progressive Muslim thought.
