MUHAMMAD ABDEL HALEEM, Professor of Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, is the editor of the Journal of Qur’anic Studies and an expert on the Quran and Arabic language and literature. His publications include Understanding the Qurʾan: Themes and Style (1999), The Qurʾan: A New Translation (2004), and the Arabic-English Dictionary of Qurʾanic Usage (with Elsaid M. Badawi, 2005).
MUHAMMAD MUSTAFA AL-AZAMI is Professor Emeritus at King Saud University, where he served as the Chair of its Department of Islamic Studies. He is a well-known authority on the Ḥadīth sciences and Quranic studies whose publications include Studies in Hadith Methodology and Literature (2002) and The History of the Qurʾānic Text from Revelation to Compilation: A Comparative Study with the Old and New Testaments (2nd edition, 2011).
WILLIAM C. CHITTICK, Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books and articles in the fields of Sufism and Islamic philosophy. Some of his more recent publications include In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought (2012) and Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God (2013).
MUṢṬAFĀ MUḤAQQIQ DĀMĀD is Professor of Islamic Philosophy at the Tehran-based Iranian Institute of Philosophy and an expert on Islamic philosophy, theology, and mysticism as well as Islamic jurisprudence and legal theory. His publications include Yād-i Khudā (The Remembrance of God, 1983), Qawāʿid-i fiqh (The Principles of Jurisprudence, 1992), and a critical edition of Mullā Ṣadrā’s al-Shawāhid al-Rubūbiyya (The Divine Testimonies, 2003).
MUZAFFAR IQBAL is the founder and director of the Center for Islamic Sciences, the founding and current editor of the journal Islamic Sciences, and a specialist in the Quran, Quranic exegesis, and the relationship between Islam and science. His publications include Islam and Science (2008) and the Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān (2013–), for which he serves as Editor in Chief.
INGRID MATTSON is the London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies at Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario. An expert on Islamic Law, the Quran, interfaith dialogue, and gender issues in contemporary Muslim communities, she is the author of The Story of the Qurʾan: Its History and Place in Muslim Daily Life (2nd edition, 2013).
TOBY MAYER is a Research Associate in the Qur’anic Studies Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies. A specialist in the fields of Islamic philosophy and theology, Shiism, Sufism, and Quranic exegesis, he has published Letter to a Disciple (2005), a translation of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazzālī’s central book on pedagogy, and Keys to the Arcana (2009), a study and translation of Shahrastānī’s Ismaili commentary on the opening chapter of the Quran.
JEAN-LOUIS MICHON (d. 2013) was a leading French scholar and translator in the areas of Sufism and Islamic art. He served for many years as a senior translator for the World Health Organization and then became the main adviser to the Moroccan government, working on several UNESCO projects dedicated to the preservation of the country’s artistic heritage, particularly the holy city of Fez. His books include Lights of Islam: Institutions, Cultures, Arts and Spirituality in the Islamic City (2000), Introduction to Traditional Islam (2008), and several translations of the writings of the eighteenth-century Moroccan Sufi master Ibn ʿAjībah.
WALID SALEH is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Toronto and an expert on the Quran, Quranic exegesis, and Muslim receptions of the Bible. His publications include The Formation of the Classical Tafsīr Tradition: The Qurʾān Commentary of al-Thaʿlabī (d. 427/1035) (2004) and In Defense of the Bible: A Critical Edition and an Introduction to al-Biqāʿī’s Bible Treatise (2008).
AḤMAD MUḤAMMAD AL-ṬAYYIB is the former Grand Mufti of Egypt and current Grand Imam of al-Azhar. He is a leading authority in Islamic Law, theology, and mysticism. His publications include Madkhal li-dirāsat al-manṭiq al-qadīm (An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Logic, 1986), al-Jānib al-naqdī fī falsafat Abi’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī (Some Critical Remarks Concerning the Philosophy of Abu’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī, 1999), and Arabic translations of several important French-language books on Ibn ʿArabī.
HAMZA YUSUF, president, cofounder, and senior faculty member of Zaytuna College, is one of the Western world’s most influential Muslim scholars. He is an expert in the areas of Islamic Law and theology, Prophetic traditions and biography, and spirituality. His publications include The Content of Character (2004), The Creed of Imam al-Ṭaḥāwī (2009), and The Prayer of the Oppressed (2010).