After years of research and writing, Tariq Ramadan recently felt like he had hit a wall.
Ramadan, a professor of Islamic studies at Oxford University in England and arguably the leading advocate of Muslim reform in Europe, had been lecturing and writing books for years.
He had urged the re-reading of Islamic texts in an effort to figure out which Islamic legal rulings can be changed and which cannot. His stated goal was to help Muslims living in secular western countries to face modern challenges while remaining faithful Muslims.
But after two decades, Ramadan felt he had reached a limit. Re-reading and re-interpreting religious texts, he concluded, isn't sufficient given the new and complex issues popping up in the world at a dizzying pace.
So Ramadan did what he has done so often in the past -- he wrote another manifesto and is again calling Muslims to action. (READ MORE)
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