Tariq Ramadan

Tariq Ramadan (born August 26, 1962) is a Swiss academic, Islamic scholar, and author. A grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, he became one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Europe during the late 1990s and 2000s, holding academic positions at Saint Antony's College, Oxford, and advocating for the integration of Islamic values with Western civic identity. His public career faced severe disruption beginning in 2017 following multiple allegations of sexual assault in France and Switzerland; after years of high-profile legal proceedings, he was convicted of rape and sexual coercion by a Swiss appeals court in 2024.