I was looking for something; I didn’t find what I was looking for but this guy kept cropping up in my searches. He sounded like a pretty switched on sort of guy (you don’t get to be Professor at Oxford if you’re second best). And then I discovered he had written a phD dissertation on Nietzsche, and that clinched it for me. Anyone who comes any where near to understanding Nietzsche has my everlasting admiration. A guy who can write a whole phD dissertation on him is, in my opinion, genius at the very least.
(a little info on the guy)
Tariq Ramadan; born 26 August 1962, Geneva, Switzerland, is a Swiss born intellectual, philosopher, theologian, television presenter, academic, poet and writer. He is also a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University. Tariq Ramadan studied Philosophy and French literature at the Masters level and holds a PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies from the University of Geneva. He also wrote a PhD dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche, entitled Nietzsche as a Historian of Philosophy.
And then I started watching this, he speaks on the topic of, ‘Islam is a European Religion’, at the Salzburg Seminar session entitled "Immigration and Inclusion: Rethinking National Identity"
I found myself listening to ideas I had never considered before. So much has been said and written about the ‘Muslim influence in the West’ but not usually like this. It takes a while to watch the whole thing but I found it worth the effort.
Tariq Ramadan - The Western Muslim 1/3
