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
Stand up for your values, be courageous and humble
To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.
There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.
We always think from where we come from. We always think from the sources that shape our understanding. I think about the world through the lens of my Islamic tradition. I accept this but I must also have intellectual humility.
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.
We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.
Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.
Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.