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Gholamreza Aavani

Emeritus Professor

Shahid Beheshti University

Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy

Asma Afsaruddin

Class of 1950 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor

Indiana University Bloomington

Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

University of California, Berkeley

Anna Ayşe Akasoy

Professor of Islamic Intellectual History

CUNY Graduate Center

Syed Farid Alatas

Professor of Sociology

National University of Singapore

Al-Ghazali Chair of Epistemology and Civilizational Studies and Renewal

International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)

William C. Chittick

SUNY Distinguished Professor

Stony Brook University

William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Research Professor

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Christiane Gruber

Mehmet Ağa-Oğlu Collegiate Professor of Islamic Art History

University of Michigan

Sebastian Günther

Professor and Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies

University of Göttingen

Marcia Hermansen

Lady Fatima Endowed Chair in Women and Divinity

Habib University

Fatemeh Keshavarz

Roshan Institute Chair in Persian Studies

University of Maryland

Mahmut Erol Kılıç

Director General

Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA)

Roxanne D. Marcotte

Professor of Contemporary Islam

Université du Québec à Montréal

Professor of Philosophy

University of Dayton

Professor of Religion and Asian Studies

Stony Brook University

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

University Professor of Islamic Studies

The George Washington University

Oludamini Ogunnaike

Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy

University of Virginia

Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Ahmet Murat Ozel

Professor of Sufi Studies

Istanbul Medeniyet University

Tahera Qutbuddin

Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic

University of Oxford

Professor of the Intellectual History of the Islamic World

SOAS University of London

Shawkat M. Toorawa

Brand Blanshard Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Yale University

Muhammad Suheyl Umar

Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences

University of Central Punjab

Shafique N. Virani

Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies

University of Toronto

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