Tariq ramadan was born on 26 August 1962 in Geneva, Switzerland.He is a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University. His father Mr Ramadan is the son of Said Ramadan and the grandson of Hasan AL Banna.Hasan AL Banna the person that founded The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.Gamal AL Banna liberal Muslim reformer is his uncle.
Imam Johari and Tariq Ramadan
Ramadan has written more than twenty books exploring the difficult issues of reinterpretation and reform within Islam itself and between the Islamic world and its neighbors around the globe. His books include Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2003), Islam, the West, and the Challenges of Modernity (The Islamic Foundation, 2000), To Be a European Muslim (The Islamic Foundation, 1998), and Jihad, Violence, War and Peace in Islam (in French only, Tawhid, 2002). He has also published a total of 700 contributions or articles in collective books, academic reviews, and magazines.
Ramadan serves as an expert in various commissions linked to the Brussels Parliament, and is a member of several working parties concerned with Islam in the world and on the continent: Deutsches Orient Institute, British Council, Vienna Peace Summit, The Parliament of the World's Religions 2004 in Barcelona, and the "Laïcité et Islam" commission of the French Educational League.
