TARIQ RAMADAN AND HIS INTERPRETATION OF THE REFORM OF ISLAM

Abstract

UDK 28-426-67
         28:929 Ramadan T.

Professor Tarik Ramadan was born in 1962, in Switzerland. He is a grandson of Hassan el-Banna, the founder of “Muslim brotherhood” organisation. He is one of the most influential contemporary Islamic scholars. He has published a number of books and articles about Muslims and secularism, challenges of modernity, Muslims in Europe, tolerance, freedom and many other issues. The following works have been translated to Bosnian language: “To be a European Muslim”, ”A Study of Islamic Sources in the European Context”(2002), ” Euro-American Muslims and the Future of Islam”(2007), “In the Footsteps of the Prophet”(2010), “Radical Reform – Islamic Ethics and Liberation”(2011). In this article we discuss the reform of Islam within Tariq Ramadan’s interpretation. We shall present the difference between adaptational and transformational reform, as well as with methods and scope for radical reform as in the view of Ramadan. We also discussed the ways of defining the reform, what does it actually represent and in what spheres that reform is possible.