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Tariq Ramadan (Arabic: طارق رمضان, [tˤaːriq ramadˤaːn]; born 26 August 1962) is a Swiss Muslim academic, philosopher and writer. [1] He was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at St Antony's College, Oxford [2] and the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, [3] He is a senior research fellow at Doshisha University in Japan, and is also a visiting professor ...
In 2019, François left TRT World and began working with BBC World Service, where she produced and presented a series of short documentaries, including Tariq Ramadan: #MeToo in the Muslim World (2018), and Is Brexit-Voting Llanelli Changing Its Mind? (2019) which looks at the impact of Brexit in Llanelli, a Leave-voting town in Wales.
Modern-era (20th to 21st century) Islamic scholars include the following, referring to religious authorities whose publications or statements are accepted as pronouncements on religion by their respective communities and adherents.
On 5 October 2010, Hitchens debated with Tariq Ramadan as to whether Islam was a religion of peace, at 92NY. [142] On 26 November 2010, Hitchens appeared in Toronto, Ontario, at the Munk Debates, where he debated religion with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a convert to Roman Catholicism. Blair argued that religion is a force for ...
Saint Alodia and Saint Nunilo – Christian martyrs and confessors who were put to death during the reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy. [318] Sarah Balabagan – Filipina who was imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates from 1994 to 1996 for murder. She was initially sentenced to death, but was later returned to the ...
Mohamed Ramadan (disambiguation), a number of people with the name; Moshood Jubril Ramadan, Nigerian religious preacher; Said Ramadan (1926–1995), Egyptian religious scholar; Susie Ramadan (born 1979), Australian boxer; Taha Yassin Ramadan (1938–2007), former Vice President of Iraq; Tariq Ramadan (born 1962), Swiss academic, son of Said
She is the author of Frère Tariq ("Brother Tariq" 2008), a critical look at the works of Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan, the central charges of which she and Mr. Ramadan later debated. [ 9 ] In 2014 the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel , the institution regulating the media in France, accuses Caroline Fourest of lack of rigor and ...
Tariq Ramadan has called for an international moratorium on the punishments of hudud laws until greater scholarly consensus can be reached. [75] Many contemporary Muslim scholars think that the hudud punishments are not absolute obligations as it is an act of mu'amalah (non-worship), thus, they think that hudud is the maximum punishment. [76]