Tariq Ramadan
Autor de In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
Sobre El Autor
Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University. He also teaches at Oxford's Faculty of Theology and is a Senior Research Fellow at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He is the author of The Messenger: A Spiritual Biography of Muhammad among others.
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1962-08-26
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Switzerland
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Educación
- University of Geneva (M.A.) (French literature)
University of Geneva (Ph.D.) (Arabic and Islamic Studies)
Al-Azhar University (ijazah) - Ocupaciones
- philosopher
theologian
university professor
poet
television presenter - Relaciones
- al-Banna, Hasan (grandfather)
- Organizaciones
- St. Anthony's College, Oxford University
European Muslim Network
Movement of Swiss Muslims
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- 4.0
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- 83
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Muslim reformism was one of the consequences of the reflection from the second half of the nineteenth century on the stalemate in which the umma was located: partial blame for colonialism, but also for intrinsic causes, among which religion was particularly important . Unlike the modernizers, for the reformists it was precisely the forgetting of religion, the distancing of Islam, which had caused the decline of the Muslim world, its submission to Western colonialism. This work analyzes the Muslim reformist thinking, both Arabic (al-Afghani, Abduh, Rida) and Turkish (Nursi) and Indian. The most outstanding of it, however, is the study of the thought of Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, as an epigone of reformism; the author, grandson of al-Banna, approaches his ideas and political initiatives based on his beliefs, to highlight the spiritual continuity between the reformist creators and al-Banna. Faced with so many works that analyze Islam from political or sociological perspectives, Muslim reformism has the interest to focus on the substratum of beliefs that consciously animate the reformist reflection, which on the other hand sheds new light on the Islamist debate, offer criteria of ideological legitimation usually little or nothing present in Western authors. A work, therefore, essential in the historical, theoretical and political levels to know the current Arab-Muslim reality.… (más)