Monday 29 October: "The quest for meaning – developing a philosophy of pluralism"
Seminar Room, HSB 21-16, 10h30-12h00

Tuesday 30 October: "The Arab Awakening"
Seminar Room, HSB 21-16, 10h00-11h30

Tuesday 30 October: "Are Islam and Sharia’h compatible with democracy?"
Law Auditorium, Faculty of Law, 17h30 for 18h00

Wednesday 31 October: "Identity issues" (based on his book, Being a Muslim in Europe)
EMB 4-150, 9h30-10h30

Wednesday 31 October: "Iran and Syria as issues on the global agenda"
Centenary 5, 12h30-13h20

Inquiries: Ms Quraysha Ismail Sooliman ([email protected])


Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St Antony's College) and also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology.  He is Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies (Qatar), Senior Research Fellow at Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan) and Director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) (Doha, Qatar).

Prof Ramadan holds an MA in Philosophy and French literature and PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Geneva.  In Cairo, Egypt, he received one-on-one intensive training in classic Islamic scholarship from Al-Azhar University scholars (ijazat in seven disciplines). Through his writings and lectures Prof Ramadan has contributed to the debate on the issues of Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world.  He is active at academic and grassroots levels, lecturing extensively throughout the world on theology, ethics, social justice, ecology and interfaith as well intercultural dialogue.  He is President of the European think tank, European Muslim Network (EMN) in Brussels.

Latest books: The Arab Awakening: Islam and the New Middle East (Penguin, April 2012); The Quest for Meaning, Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism (Penguin, 2010); What I believe (OUP USA, 2009); Radical Reform, Islamic Ethics and Liberation (OUP USA 2008). 

To visit Prof Ramadan's website, click here.