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In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad.

Publication: The Christian Century
Publication Date: 29-MAY-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad.(Book review)

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In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad. By Tariq Ramadan. Oxford University Press, 208 pp., $23.00.

TARIQ RAMADAN'S life as public intellectual and leader among European Muslims has been dramatic. Looming in his personal background is his grandfather, Hasan al-Banna, who was the founder in 1928 of Egypt's most famous Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood. In and out of the political process over the decades, the Brotherhood has remained committed to a vision in which Egyptian civil society is subordinated to Islamic religious principles and legal precepts. The Brotherhood produced the single most important modern Islamic fundamentalist thinker, Sayyid Qutb, who was hanged by the Egyptian state in 1966.

Into this environment of radicalism and confrontation Ramadan was born, yet he spent much of his youth and schooling years in...

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