Swiss Muslims - Tariq Ramadan, Frithjof Schuon, Hakan Yakin, Valon Behrami, Isabelle Eberhardt, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (Paperback)

Chapters: Tariq Ramadan, Frithjof Schuon, Hakan Yakin, Valon Behrami, Isabelle Eberhardt, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Princess Fadia of Egypt, Said Ramadan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tariq Ramadan (Arabic:, born 26 August 1962, Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss academic. He is a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University. He advocates the study and re-interpretation of Islamic texts, and emphasizes the heterogeneous nature of Western Muslims. He emphasizes the necessity for their contribution to Western society. An online poll provided by The British Prospect and the American Foreign Policy magazines placed him eighth in a list of the worlds top 100 contemporary intellectuals in 2008. Tariq Ramadan (at table, right) speaking in Oxford.Ramadan is the son of Said Ramadan and the grandson 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, literature and social sciences at the University of Geneva, where he graduated a year early. He studied philosophy and French literature at the Masters level (The Notion of Suffering in Nietzsche's Philosophy), and Arabic and Islamic studies for his PhD. He wrote his PhD dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche, entitled Nietzsche as a Historian of Philosophy. He also studied Arabic and Islam at Al Azhar Islamic university in Cairo, Egypt. He taught at the College de Saussure, a high school in Geneva, Switzerland, and held a lectureship in Religion and Philosophy at the University of Fribourg from 19...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=584063