Tariq Ramadan
About Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan (Arabic: طارق رمضان [tˤaːriq ramadˤaːn]; born 26 August 1962) is a Swiss philosopher, writer, and Islamic scholar who was convicted of three counts of rape by a French court in 2026. He has held academic positions including professor of contemporary Islamic studies at St Antony's College, Oxford and the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. He was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, and a former director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) in Doha. Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and has written and lectured on Islam, Muslim identity in Europe and reformist thought. He has described himself as a "Salafi reformist". Ramadan has been convicted of rape and sexual coercion in Switzerland, and of rape and rape of a vulnerable person in France. In 2024, a Swiss appeals court convicted him in relation to a 2008 incident in Geneva, which became final in 2025 after his appeal was rejected by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. In March 2026, the Paris criminal court convicted him of raping three women and sentenced him to 18 years’ imprisonment; the judgment is subject to appeal.