PHILOSOPHER

Tariq Ramadan

1962 - Today

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Tariq Ramadan (Arabic: طارق رمضان, [tˤaːriq ramadˤaːn]; born 26 August 1962) is a Swiss Muslim academic, philosopher and writer. He was a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at St Antony's College, Oxford and the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, He is a senior research fellow at Doshisha University in Japan, and is also a visiting professor at the Université Mundiapolis in Morocco. He was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, and used to be the director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), based in Doha. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tariq Ramadan has received more than 1,146,669 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Tariq Ramadan is the 1,004th most popular philosopher (down from 1,003rd in 2019), the 379th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 383rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Tariq Ramadan ranks 1,004 out of 1,267. Before him are Ram Dass, Seyla Benhabib, Jacob Taubes, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Isidore of Alexandria, and Arulenus Rusticus. After him are Amelius, Ogyū Sorai, Stanley Cavell, Lon L. Fuller, Androcles, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Tariq Ramadan ranks 162. Before him are Oleksiy Danilov, Liza Marklund, Karel Roden, Maruschka Detmers, Ferran Adrià, and Esai Morales. After him are Michael Weikath, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Uwe Rahn, MC Hammer, Wim Kieft, and Taslima Nasrin.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Tariq Ramadan ranks 379 out of 1,015. Before him are Oliver Neuville (1973), Otto Binswanger (1852), Marcel Pilet-Golaz (1889), Bernhard Hammer (1822), Erhard Loretan (1959), and Karin Keller-Sutter (1963). After him are Adolf Ogi (1942), Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), Philippe Jaccottet (1925), Oswald Heer (1809), Emil Frey (1838), and Archduchess Charlotte of Austria (1921).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Switzerland

Among philosophers born in Switzerland, Tariq Ramadan ranks 8. Before him are Benjamin Constant (1767), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), Frithjof Schuon (1907), Denis de Rougemont (1906), Jean Vanier (1928), and Emer de Vattel (1714). After him are Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768).

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