Tariq Ramadan Quotes
We integrate the good wherever we find it.
Ramadan, Tariq. Western Muslims and the Future of Islam. Oxford University Press, 2004.
She was the first member of European royalty to embrace the Bahai faith. This faith is positive and supportive of all other faiths—an unusual characteristic for a religion. It even speaks well of Islam where literal interpretations of Sharia—Islamic Law—require that all Bahais be put to death. In Iran, they were still murdering Bahais in the 21st century.
Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss Muslim academic, philosopher, and writer. He was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at St Antony's College, Oxford and the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, but as of 2018 is taking an agreed leave of absence. He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, and the Université Mundiapolis in Morocco. He is also a senior research fellow at Doshisha University in Japan. He is the director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), based in Doha. He is a member of the UK Foreign Office Advisory Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief. He was elected by Time magazine in 2000 as one of the seven religious innovators of the 21st century and in 2004 as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and by Foreign Policy readers (2005, 2006, 2008–2010, 2012–2015) as one of the top 100 most influential thinkers in the world and Global Thinkers. Ramadan describes himself as a "Salafi reformist".
