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, writer and convicted rapist. 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 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

His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2024). Tariq Ramadan is the 997th most popular philosopher (up from 1,004th in 2024), the 384th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 378th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Tariq Ramadan ranks 997 out of 1,267. Before him are Christian von Ehrenfels, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Fernando Savater, Wei Yuan, Anniceris, and Evald Ilyenkov. After him are Jacques Cujas, Ram Dass, Jaime Balmes, Dominicus Gundissalinus, Robert Anton Wilson, and Herbert Feigl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Tariq Ramadan ranks 157. Before him are Wynton Rufer, Ulisses Correia e Silva, Victor Pelevin, Nigmatilla Yuldashev, Maruschka Detmers, and Karel Roden. After him are Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, David Foster Wallace, Robert B. Spencer, Sırrı Süreyya Önder, Kim Vilfort, and Maryna Poroshenko.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Tariq Ramadan ranks 384 out of 1,015. Before him are Anton Allemann (1936), Pirmin Zurbriggen (1963), James Pradier (1790), Oliver Neuville (1973), Edgar Schein (1928), and Wilhelm His Sr. (1831). After him are Alois Estermann (1954), Erhard Loretan (1959), Werner Bischof (1916), Conrad Grebel (1498), Adolf Ogi (1942), and Marcel Pilet-Golaz (1889).

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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), Emer de Vattel (1714), Frithjof Schuon (1907), Jean Vanier (1928), and Denis de Rougemont (1906). After him are Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768).

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