Date/Time
Wed. 30 Apr 2014
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
University of Zurich - B10, KOL
MSAZ is pleased to invite Prof. Tariq Ramadan from Oxford University
Location : B10, KOL, Rämistrasse 71, Universität Zürich
Time: starting at 18:30
Tariq Ramadan will be giving a lecture at University of Zürich specially aimed at the role of students as active members of our community.
University of Zurich President Prof. Michael Hengartner (UZH Rektor) will be giving a welcome speech in his honor inshALLAH.
No registration is required, but please come early to make sure that you get a place in the auditorium.
MSAZ expects a lot of interest from muslim and non-muslim students in this lecture so feel free to invite all your friends to this event.
Insha’Allah you will benefit from this intellectual talk by Prof. Ramadan.
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.
For further information please visit MSAZ website or facebook.