Professor Tariq Ramadan holds 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. Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St Antony’s College ). He is also teaching at the Faculty of Theology at Oxford. He is at the same time a Visiting Professor in Qatar (Faculty of Islamic Studies) and in Morocco (Mundiapolis) and a Senior Research Fellow at Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan). Through his writings and lectures he has contributed substantially to the debate on contemporary Islamic issues, Islamic revival in the world and Muslims in the West. He is active both at the academic and grassroots levels lecturing extensively throughout the world on theology, Islamic law and jurisprudence, applied ethics, philosophy, social justice, economy, politics, interfaith and intracommunity dialogue.Professor Tariq Ramadan is currently President of the European think tank: European Muslim Network (EMN) in Brussels Last books : "The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism", Penguin, UK, 2010,“What I believe” OUP USA (Nov 2009), “Radical Reform, Islamic Ethics and Liberation”OUP USA (Nov 2008) Source :http://www.tariqramadan.com/BIOGRAPHY,11.html
Tariq Ramadan, author of The Quest for Meaning, addresses the problem of being a “Muslim intellectual” in an editorial in The Guardian. Ramadan writes that his book is designed to promote pluralism for all, regardless of religion or place within society. But, as he promoted the book, Ramadan says it became clear that some thought he could not write about pluralism. “Prisoners of their certainties about what a ‘Muslim intellectual’ is entitled to be and to say, some critics have evaluated the book on the basis of their preconceived opinion of its author,” Ramadan said. Rather than focusing on the message of his book, Ramadan feels critics and reporters have focused on his religion — or the lack of his writing directly about it. One commentator even suggested Ramadan’s intentions were suspect simply because he is Muslim.
Ramadan says that, more important than what critics have said about him, is the way their writings have illustrated the point of his book.
Such open, critical readings reinforce my optimism about the future of our pluralist societies, as against the hasty dismissals of certain intellectuals and critics trapped in their certainties, ready to insist that an intellectual they describe as “Muslim” must either speak of Islam or hold his piece.
Read More: The problems of being called a ‘Muslim intellectual’ (The Guardian)
Professor Tariq Ramadan holds 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. 
