John Esposito

John Esposito

male, 69 years old
College of the Holy Cross, Georgetown University, Academic, Georgetown University faculty, American, American Middle Eastern studies…Islamic politics and Islamic world studies, Islamicstudies
John Louis Esposito (born 19 May1940, Brooklyn, New York City) is a professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University.
Ingrid Mattson

Ingrid Mattson

female
University of Chicago, convert, Ph.D., fine arts, From Ontario, Hartford Seminary…Islamicstudies, Islamic Society of North America, Ph.D. in Islamic Studies, Vice-President of the Islamic Society, islamic
Ingrid Mattson , the recently elected president of the 43-year-old Islamic Society of North America, is the first convert, first non-immigrant and...
Akbar S. Ahmed

Akbar S. Ahmed

male, 66 years old
prince charles, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, civil awards, Pakistani American, Civil decorations of Pakistan, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz…School of Oriental and African Studies, Islamicstudies
Akbar S. Ahmed is an anthropologist scholar on contemporary Islam from Pakistan. He holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and is a...
Amina Wadud

Amina Wadud

female
Islamic feminist, Islam-related controversy, jordan, sarajevo, International Islamic University Malaysia, Qur'anic studies…Islamicstudies, International Islamic University, Ph.D. in Islamic Studies and Arabic
Amina Wadud is a controversial Islamic feminist and scholar. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and, during graduate school,...

Carl Ernst

male
Islamicstudies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Islamic scholar, Stanford University alumni, Carl W. Ernst
Carl W. Ernst is a scholar of Islamic studies. He is professor of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
Khurshid Ahmad

Khurshid Ahmad

male, 77 years old
Muhajir, Professor Khurshid, Islamicstudies, Academic of the University of Leicester, Jurisprudence, politician…Islamic scholar
Khurshīd Aḥmad (Urdu: خورشید احمد, also known as Professor Khurshid is a renowned research scholar, educationist, economist, versatile writer, and M...
Ebrahim Moosa

Ebrahim Moosa

male
Between Right and Wrong Debating Muslim Ethics, Duke University faculty, From Lucknow, Alumni of City University, London, City University, London, Islamicstudies…Islamic thought, Arabia The Islamic World Review, Islamic law
Ebrahim E.I. Moosa is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion and Director of the Center for Study of Muslim Networks...
Henry Corbin

Henry Corbin

male, deceased (1978)
judaism, Theologian, Islamicstudies, Western culture, From Paris, islam…Non-Muslim Islamic scholar
Henry Corbin was a philosopher, theologian and professor of Islamic Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. Corbin was one of the 20th century’s most re...
Siraj Wahhaj

Siraj Wahhaj

male
Jeffrey Kearse, bright light, English, Umm al-Qura, mecca, Taqwa…Islamicstudies, Islamic Society of North America
Siraj Wahhaj (English: Bright light; born as Jeffrey Kearse) is an African-American Muslim convert to Islam and public speaker in North America....
Farid Esack

Farid Esack

male
Christian, Islamic feminist, Islamicstudies, madrassah, Sunni Muslim scholar of Islam, Dars-i-Nizami…Sunni Muslim Islamic scholar
Farid Esack (1959-) is a South African Muslim scholar, writer, and political activist known for his opposition to apartheid, his appointment by...