![]() He completed two doctoral dissertations, one on Nietzsche and the other on his famous grandfather. Tariq thus came to be born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. His father, Said Ramadan, was another leading figure in the Brotherhood and was banished from Egypt. Ramadan is the grandson of Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928 (the group that later spawned Ayman al-Zawahiri, co-founder of al Qaeda). In France and elsewhere, he is revered by Muslim youth, and often lauded by the secular Left, for his facility in combining “Islamic” and “progressive” points of view in ways that at least sound plausible. His views are disseminated in pamphlets and tapes throughout the Muslim diaspora, not only in his native Europe but across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Tariq Ramadan, who was born in 1962, is from any perspective one of the most important voices in Islam today. ![]() In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad ![]()
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