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Tariq Ramadan
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Think of it as a storm that begins in Egypt and reaches South Bend, Indiana. An Islamist of Egyptian ancestry and Swiss nationality, Tariq Ramadan, an author and pamphleteer 42 years of age, was set to begin a new academic appointment at the University of Notre Dame, as the occupant of a chair at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Back in May, the highly controversial figure, who resides in Geneva and whose shadow falls across the French intellectual and political landscape, was granted a work/residency visa in the United States. But two months later, the Department of Homeland Security revoked his visa, and in South Bend and beyond the matter of Tariq Ramadan has become a test of the balance between liberty and national security in a country still in the throes of a long war against terror.
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Tariq Ramadan was no ordinary academic, and the people who authorized this appointment at Notre Dame no doubt knew that. In the world of the new Islamism, Mr. Ramadan was
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In the Footsteps of the Prophet by Tariq Ramadan
A Kinder, Gentler Islam?
In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
by Tariq Ramadan
Oxford. 256 pp. $23.00
Tariq Ramadan, who was born in 1962, is from any perspective one of the most important voices in Islam today. His views are disseminated in pamphlets and tapes throughout the Muslim diaspora, not only in his native Europe but across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. In France and elsewhere, he is revered by Muslim youth, and often lauded by the secular Left, for his facility in combining “Islamic” and “progressive” points of view in ways that at least sound plausible.
Ramadan is the grandson of Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928 (the group that later spawned Ayman al-Zawahiri, co-founder of al Qaeda). His father, Said Ramadan, was another leading figure in the Brotherhood and was banished from Egypt. Tariq thus came to be born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. He completed two doctoral dissertations, one on Nietzsche and the other on h
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Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Said Ramadan (born 26 August 1962 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss Muslim academic and theologian. He advocates a reinterpretation of Islamic texts, and emphasizes the heterogeneous nature of Islamic society. He believes that Muslims in Europe have to establish a new "European Islam" and emphasizes the necessity for their engagement in European society.
Ramadan is professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University and chairs a Brussels-based think tank, the European Muslim Network.
Biography
His maternal grandfather Hassan al Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. His father, Said Ramadan, was a prominent figure in the Muslim Brotherhood as well, and was expelled from Egypt by Gamal Abdul Nasser for his activities in that organization. He later settled in Switzerland where Tariq was born.[1] Tariq Ramadan graduated a year early and studied philosophy, literature and social sciences at University of Geneva. He studied philosophy and French literature at the Masters level, and Arabic and Islamic studies for his PhD. He wrot
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