Date/Time
Sun. 17 May 2015
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location
Rote Fabrik - Clubraum, Seestrasse 395, Zürich

The ‘IG Rote Fabrik’ is organising a podium discussion targeting to elaborate what an European Islam and also a Swiss Islam could actually represent.

The podium discussion is planned to be hold in English.

Date: Sunday May 17th
Venue: Rote Fabrik (Clubraum), Seestrasse 395, Zürich
Time: 8pm
Costs: CHF 17 / CHF 27
For ticket reservation and further information please click here: IG Rote Fabrik.

About the Speaker

Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St Antony’s College) and also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology. He is Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, (Qatar) and the University of Malaysia Perlis; Senior Research Fellow at Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan) and Director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) (Doha, Qatar).

He holds an 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 (ijazat in seven disciplines).
Through his writings and lectures Tariq has contributed to the debate on the issues of Muslims in the West and Islamic revival in the Muslim world. He is active at academic and grassroots levels lecturing extensively throughout the world on theology, ethics, social justice, ecology and interfaith as well intercultural dialogue.
He is President of the European think tank: European Muslim Network (EMN) in Brussels.
He is a member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.