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Tariq Ramadan : biography

26 August 1962 –

Tariq Ramadan ( born 26 August 1962) is a Swiss academic and writer. He is also a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St Antony’s College). He also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology. He is Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, (Qatar) and Director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) (Doha, Qatar). He advocates the study and re-interpretation of Islamic texts, and emphasizes the heterogeneous nature of Western Muslims., Western Muslims and The Future of Islam, Oxford University Press, USA; (November 27, 2003).

Biography

Tariq Ramadan was born in Geneva, Switzerland on 26 August 1962. He is the son of Said Ramadan and Wafa Al-Bana, who was the eldest daughter of Hassan al Banna, who in 1928 founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Gamal al-Banna, the liberal Muslim reformer is his great-uncle. His father was a prominent figure in the Muslim Brotherhood and was exiled by Gamal Abdul Nasser from Egypt to Switzerland, where Tariq was born.

Tariq Ramadan studied Philosophy and French literature at the Masters level and holds a PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies from the University of Geneva. He also wrote a PhD dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche, titled Nietzsche as a Historian of Philosophy.Tariq Ramadan. What I Believe. Oxford University Press. p. 12

He taught at the Collège de Saussure, a high school in Geneva, Switzerland, and held a lectureship in Religion and Philosophy at the University of Fribourg from 1996 to 2003. In October 2005 he began teaching at St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford on a Visiting Fellowship. In 2005 he was a senior research fellow at the Lokahi Foundation. – BBC – Saturday, 27 August 2005 In 2007 he successfully applied for the professorship in Islamic studies at the University of Leiden, but then declined to take up the position, citing professional reasons., Elsevier.nl 6 November 2007 (Dutch), Islam in Europe Blog, 28 November 2007 He was also a guest professor of Identity and Citizenship at Erasmus University Rotterdam,

  • Tariq Ramadan’s website
  • , article about Ramadan in The Christian Science Monitor
  • , New Statesman article
  • , Red Pepper
  • , New York Times profile.
  • , Ramadan named as a "Next Wave innovator" by Time Magazine
  • , by Andrew Hussey, New Statesman, Prospect magazine interview by Ehsan Masood
  • , at Islamonline.net
  • , Haaretz article
  • , interview at swissinfo
  • , Boston Globe article
  • Islamica Magazine article, an article on Ramadan, at signandsight.com
  • , Paul Landau, adapted from chapter 8 of Le Sabre et le Coran, translated from the French by Transatlantic Intelligencer, 2005
  • , by Tariq Ramadan, January 6, 2008 Sunday Book Review cover article

till August 2009 when the City of Rotterdam and Erasmus University dismissed him from his positions as "integration adviser" and professor, stating that the program he chairs on Iran’s Press TV, Islam & Life, was "irreconcilable" with his duties in Rotterdam. The Guardian 18 August 2009, Swiss info website, 19 August 2009 Ramadan described this move as Islamophobic and politically charged. by Tariq Ramadan Beginning September 2009, Ramadan, was appointed to the Chair in Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University.

Ramadan established the Mouvement des Musulmans Suisses (Movement of Swiss Muslims), which engages in various interfaith seminars. He is an advisor to the EU on religious issues and was sought for advice by the EU on a commission on “Islam and Secularism”.In September 2005 he was invited to join a task force by the government of the United Kingdom. He is also the President of the Euro-Muslim Network, a Brussels-based think-tank.

He is widely interviewed and has produced about 100 tapes which sell tens of thousands of copies each year., Olivier Guitta, Weekly Standard, 10/16/2006, Volume 012, Issue 05