From Istanbul, where Muslim scholars (ulama’), coming from all over the world, are meeting. The crisis of the Muslim intelligence is obvious and reveals itself during the debates, when the thought, vision and goals are lost and scattered for the sake of immediate responsiveness to political, social, cultural or legal issues.
Where is the scientific framework, where do we remember knowledge and understanding, how do we assert the imperative spiritual meaning, what are our higher objectives for Humanity (beyond the fragmented and isolated Muslim thought), what contributions do we offer and share?
We have an urgent need to reform the Muslim intelligence, vision and priorities. A crisis is the end of a cycle, some leave and others will come. A new generation must get education, understanding and get committed, in sha Allah.
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Professor Tariq Ramadan is a man of no need to introduction. He holds 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. Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St Antony’s College ). He is also teaching at the Faculty of Theology at Oxford. He is at the same time a Visiting Professor in Qatar (Faculty of Islamic Studies) and in Morocco (Mundiapolis) and a Senior Research Fellow at Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan).[/symple_box]
This was originally posted on Dr. Tariq Ramadan’s Facebook account.
