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Tariq Ramadan
 | Professor Tariq Ramadan holds MA in Philosophy and French literature and PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Geneva. In Cairo, Egypt he received one-on-one intensive training in classic Islamic scholarship from Al-Azhar University scholars. Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St Antony’s College ). He is also teaching at the Faculty of Theology at Oxford. He is at the same time a Visiting Professor in Qatar (Faculty of Islamic Studies) and in Morocco (Mundiapolis) and a Senior Research Fellow at Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan). |
Recent Articles
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Monday Jun 17
Is it the end of Islamism or the birth of new liberal capitalist Islamists?
Whenever a configuration appears in a Muslim-majority country, there is hesitation in the West to stigmatise that country by defining it as ‘Islamist’
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Monday Jun 3
When citizenship and human rights clash
After generations of presence, the legal and psychological success of integration will lie in no longer speaking about integration
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Monday May 20
The French exception
It is indeed unfortunate that over-simplification of problems is being used to sway popular emotions, not the wisdom and dignity required to seek solutions
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Monday May 6
Dangerous emotions, liberating spirituality
In the age of global communication, anyone whose mind has not been trained to be critical of information will be vulnerable to all kinds of manipulation
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Monday Apr 15
The need for an Arab Cultural Revolution
The need for an Arab Cultural Revolution
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Monday Apr 1
Contemporary Islamic conscience in crisis
Over-definition of norms makes it possible to legitimise attitudes that may be legally licit, but do not respect Islamic ethics in matters of behaviour
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Monday Mar 18
A curious historical shift
Behind growing political instability and the illusion of democratic progress in Iraq, lurks increased economic domination by western powers
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Monday Mar 4
Catholic Church has serious problems
It can only be hoped that the next pope will be better fitted to grasp the great issues of the day
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Monday Feb 18
Superstition has poisoned the contemporary Muslim conscience
Islam need the kind of guidance that respects all beings
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Tuesday Feb 5
Religion is here — an echo of an era that some believed was gone
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility
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