Mudd Center Speaker: Tariq Ramadan, "Equality As a Social Requirement and a Human Ideal"

The Mudd Center's annual Distinguished Lecture will be given this year by Tariq Ramadan, professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford. His talk is entitled: "Equality As a Social Requirement and a Human Ideal." Professor Ramadan is a Swiss academic, philosopher and writer. He works primarily on Islamic theology and the position of Muslims in the West and within Muslim majority countries. Generally speaking, he prioritizes Qur'anic interpretation over simply reading the text, in order to understand its meaning and to practice the tenets of Islamic philosophy.

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