Andrew F. March (Yale University) has posted Reading Tariq Ramadan: Political Liberalism, Islam, and ‘Overlapping Consensus’ (Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 399-413, Winter 2007) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
In this paper I discuss the controversy over the career and thought of Tariq Ramadan. I offer an account of what Western liberals ought to hope for from the thought of such a figure and then show, pace Ramadan’s critiques, that his views on European citizenship and social cooperation are largely "reasonable" from the standpoint of political liberalism. I also situate Ramadan’s views in the context of Islamic law and contemporary Islamist thought on life in the West.