Irshad Manji

Irshad Manji

female, 41 years old
Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Canadian feminist Muslim, author, journalist, and activist. She is a well-known critic of radical Islam and orthodox...
Tawfik Hamid

Tawfik Hamid

male
Tawfik Hamid is an Egyptian scholar, author and dissident intellectual opposed to Islamic Fundamentalism. A former member of al-Gama'a...
Tariq Ramadan

Tariq Ramadan

male, 47 years old
Tariq Said Ramadan (born 26 August 1962 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss Muslim academic and theologian. He advocates a reinterpretation of...
Muhammad Abduh

Muhammad Abduh

male, deceased (1905)
Muhammad Abduh (or Muhammad 'Abduh was an Egyptian jurist, religious scholar and liberal reformer known as the founder of Islamic Modernism.
Tarek Fatah

Tarek Fatah

male
Tarek Fatah (born November 20, 1949) is a secular Muslim Canadian political activist, writer and TV host. Founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress,...
Syed Ahmed Khan

Syed Ahmed Khan

male, deceased (1898)
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Bahadur, GCSI (October 17 1817 – March 27 1898), commonly known as Sir Syed, was an Indian educator and politician who pi...
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha

Mahmoud Mohamed Taha

male
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha (1909 - January 18 1985) was a Sudanese political figure and theologian. Taha played a prominent role in Sudan's struggle for...
Rashid Rida

Rashid Rida

male, deceased (1935)
Muhammad Rashid Rida was a Syrian intellectual of the Islamic modernism tradition pioneered by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh. Like his...
Hassan Al-Turabi

Hassan Al-Turabi

male, 77 years old
Dr. Hassan 'Abd Allah al-Turabi, commonly called Hassan al-Turabi (sometimes transliterated Hassan al-Tourabi) (حسن الترابي), is a religious...
Amina Wadud

Amina Wadud

female
Amina Wadud is a controversial Islamic feminist and scholar. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and, during graduate school,...