Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Tariq Ramadan
Born: August 26, 1962 (age 62)
Bio: Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss academic, philosopher and writer. He is the professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford and also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology.
Known for:
- Radical Reform, Radical Ijtihad (2008)
- Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (2004)
- To Be a European Muslim (1998)