Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadanis a Swiss academic, philosopher and writer. He is the professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford and also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology. He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, the Université Mundiapolisand several other universities around world. He is also a senior research fellow at Doshisha University. He is the director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics, based in...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 August 1962
CountrySwitzerland
Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.
I've never suffered because of my heritage in Europe.
A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.
I think many thinkers and activists, even in the Islamist parties like the Muslim Brotherhood, and the people who left the Muslim Brotherhood to follow Abou el-Fatouh, these people do have an understanding that the relationship between religion and the state must be re-thought and re-assessed. They're not going to use the concept of secularism in any straightforward way, because the concept of secularism is still far too loaded in that part of the world.
To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.
The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.
I don't like what you`re doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today
Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.
Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.
Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules and ask why. So we must return to the philosophy of law, the raison d'etre and the point of what we're asked to do. It's not easy, it's very demanding and it needs intellectual courage.
If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.
A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.
There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.
Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day