Tariq Ramadan attempts to demonstrate that Muslims can respond to the challenges of modernity without betraying their identity. They can approach the modern epoch by adopting a specific social, political, and economic model that is linked to ethical values and spirituality. Rather than a modernism that tends to impose Westernization, it is a modernity that admits to the pluralism of civilizations, religions, and cultures. Tariq Ramadan is a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford and a visiting professor in Identity and Citizenship at Erasmus University. He was named by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred innovators of the twenty-first century.