Experts by Geographical Areas of Interest

Click on a geographic area for a list of expert names are followed by their policy areas (and sub-areas) of interest. Where no sub-area is listed or where “general” is listed as a sub-area, it indicates that the scholar has a broad knowledge of the policy area.


AFGHANISTAN

Dr. Alam Payind: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Current Events); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General)

Prof. M. Nazif Shahrani: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism); Cultural Issues (Ethnography; Identity/ Representation; Modernization; Nationalism); Education (Modern Education in the Muslim World); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Democratization; Development; State Formation; Terrorism/Counterterrorism); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science; Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Imperialism; Security Studies; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Jahan Stanizai: Civil Society (Health; Social Services); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Modernization); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Conflict Resolution; Diaspora/Refugee Studies); Gender/Women's Studies (Women in Islam); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization)

Dr. Zaman Stanizai: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (General; Minority Studies; Nationalism); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Conflict Resolution; Current Events; Democratization; Peace Studies); Muslim Languages and Linguistics; Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science; Sufism


ARAB STUDIES

Prof. Mohammed Abu-Nimer: Civil Society (General; Identity/ Representation); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Diaspora/Refugee Studies; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Peace Studies); Human Rights (Arab-Israeli Conflict); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Minority Studies); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Salam Al-Marayati: Communications (Cinema and Film; Media); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Cinema and Film; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Energy Studies)

Prof. Mahmoud Ayoub: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (General; History of Religion; Islamic Philosophers); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Education (General; Classical Education in the Muslim World; Islamic Pedagogy; Islamic Philosophers; Teaching About Islam); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Shi`a Islam; Sufism

Dr. Nimat Hafez Barazangi: Basic Islam; Civil Society (General; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Interfaith Relations); Education (General; Classical Education in the Muslim World; Madrassas; Teaching About Islam); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Women in Islam); Muslim Languages and Linguistics (General; Psycholinguistics)

Prof. Peter K. Bechtold: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post Colonialism); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Ethnography); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Democratization)

Prof. Charles Butterworth: Classical Islamic Era (General; Islamic Philosophers); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Education (General; Islamic Philosophers); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Arab-Israeli Conflict); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Dr. Aliaa Dakroury: Arts and Literature (Identity/Representation; Media); Civil Society (Journalism; Media); Communications (Media); Cultural Issues (Identity/Representation; Pop Culture); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Diaspora/Refugee Studies; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Media); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Identity/Representation; Women in Islam); Human Rights (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom)

Prof. John Esposito: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Globalization; Identity/Representation; Modernization); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Democratization; Development); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Dr. Muneer Fareed: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Andalusi Studies; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence

Prof. Muqtedar A. Khan: Classical Islamic Era (Islamic Philosophers); Cultural Issues (Identity/Representation; Modernization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Foreign Relations; Globalization); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Just War Theory; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Dr. Aisha Musa: Classical Islamic Era (General; History of Religion; Just War Theory); Cultural Issues (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Modernization); Education (General; Classical Education in the Muslim World; Modern Education in the Muslim World; Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Just War Theory); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Women in Islam); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Comparative Religion; Just War Theory)

Dr. Mohamed Nimer: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Minority Studies; Modernization; Nationalism) Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Peace Studies); Human Rights (Arab-Israeli Conflict); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Prof. Sulayman Nyang: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Development; Diaspora/Refugee Studies); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Foreign Relations; Political Economy)

Prof. Louay M. Safi: Classical Islamic Era (Islamic Philosophers); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Modernization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Democratization); Human Rights (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Islamism; Political Economy)

Prof. Abdallah Schleifer: Arts and Literature (Media); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Modernization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Media; Terrorism/ Counterterrorism); Human Rights (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism and Imperialism (Arab-Israeli Conflict, Colonialism/Post-Colonialism); Sufism

Prof. Tamara Sonn: Civil Society (Minority Studies); Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion; Just War Theory); Cultural Issues (Minority Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Education (Madrassas; Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Just War Theory); Human Rights (General; Minority Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory; Minority Studies)

Prof. Antony Sullivan: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Interfaith Relations); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Current Events; Conflict Resolution); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism

Prof. John Voll: Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (General; Modernization; Nationalism); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Democratization); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Islamism); Sufism

 

ASIAN STUDIES

Prof. John Esposito: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Globalization; Identity/Representation; Modernization); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Democratization; Development); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Prof. S.M. (Ghazi) Ghazanfar: Business, Economics, and Development (Development and Infrastructure; Economics); Classical Islamic Era (Andalusi Studies; Historiography; History of Science); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Development; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/ Representation); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Development); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Human Rights/Religious Freedom)

Prof. John Voll: Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (General; Modernization; Nationalism); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Democratization); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Islamism); Sufism

CENTRAL ASIAN STUDIES

Maliha Chishti: Cultural Issues (Development; Globalization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Development; Peace Studies); Gender/Women's Studies

Prof. Aminah McCloud: Basic Islam; Civil Society (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Media; Minority Studies); Communications (Cinema and Film); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation); Cultural Issues (Cultural Studies); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Current Events; Diaspora/Refugee Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Foreign Relations); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Prof. M. Nazif Shahrani: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism); Cultural Issues (Ethnography; Identity/ Representation; Modernization; Nationalism); Education (Modern Education in the Muslim World); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Democratization; Development; State Formation; Terrorism/Counterterrorism); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science; Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Imperialism; Security Studies; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Dr. Zaman Stanizai: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (General; Minority Studies; Nationalism); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Conflict Resolution; Current Events; Democratization; Peace Studies); Muslim Languages and Linguistics; Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science; Sufism

 

EUROPEAN MUSLIMS

Prof. Azizah Al-Hibri: Basic Islam; Business, Economics and Development (Banking and Finance; Business Ethics; Business Law); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Identity/ Representation; Sexuality Studies; Women in Islam); Human Rights (Conflict Resolution; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies)

Salam Al-Marayati: Communications (Cinema and Film; Media); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Cinema and Film; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Energy Studies)

Dr. Jamal Barzinji: Basic Islam; Business, Economics, and Development (Accounting; Business Ethics); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/ Religious Freedom; Minority Studies); Education (Madrassas; Modern Education in the Muslim World; Teaching About Islam); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization)

Dr. Zahid H. Bukhari: Education (Madrassas); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism

Prof. John Esposito: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Globalization; Identity/ Representation; Modernization); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Democratization; Development); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Prof. Muqtedar A. Khan: Classical Islamic Era (Islamic Philosophers); Cultural Issues (Identity/Representation; Modernization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Foreign Relations; Globalization); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Just War Theory; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Dr. Mohamed Nimer: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Minority Studies; Modernization; Nationalism) Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Peace Studies); Human Rights (Arab-Israeli Conflict); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Sarah Swick: Cultural Issues (General; Cultural Studies; Development; Ethnography; Globalization; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies; Nationalism; Pop Culture); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Diaspora/Refugee Studies; Transnationalism); Gender/Women's Studies

 

GULF STUDIES

Prof. Peter K. Bechtold: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post Colonialism); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Ethnography); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Democratization)

Prof. John Esposito: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Globalization; Identity/ Representation; Modernization); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Democratization; Development); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Sarah Swick: Cultural Issues (General; Cultural Studies; Development; Ethnography; Globalization; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies; Nationalism; Pop Culture); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Diaspora/Refugee Studies; Transnationalism); Gender/Women's Studies
 

INDONESIAN STUDIES

Prof. John Esposito: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Globalization; Identity/ Representation; Modernization); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Democratization; Development); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)


IRANIAN STUDIES

Laleh Bakhtiar: Basic Islam; Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Women in Islam); Natural Sciences, Medicine and Health (Psychiatry/Mental Health); Shi'a Islam; Sufism

Prof. John Esposito: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Globalization; Identity/Representation; Modernization); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Democratization; Development); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Dr. Alam Payind: Basic Islam; Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Current Events); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science

Dr. Zaman Stanizai: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (General; Minority Studies; Nationalism); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Conflict Resolution; Current Events; Democratization; Peace Studies); Muslim Languages and Linguistics; Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science; Sufism


IRAQI STUDIES

Prof. Taha Jabir Al-Alwani: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion; History of Science; Islamic Philosophers; Just War Theory); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory; Minority Studies); Shi'a Islam

Dr. Hamada Hamid: Natural Sciences, Medicine and Health (General; Psychiatry/Mental Health)

 

KURDISH STUDIES

Dr. Jamal Barzinji: Basic Islam; Business, Economics, and Development (Accounting; Business Ethics) Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Minority Studies); Education (Madrassas; Modern Education in the Muslim World; Teaching About Islam); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization)

  

LATIN-AMERICAN MUSLIMS

Dr. Zahid H. Bukhari: Education (Madrassas); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism

Prof. Khaleel Mohammed: Basic Islam; Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence

Dr. Alam Payind: Basic Islam; Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Current Events); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science

Prof. Tamara Sonn: Civil Society (Minority Studies); Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion; Just War Theory); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Minority Studies); Education (Madrassas; Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Just War Theory); Human Rights (General; Minority Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory; Minority Studies)

LEBANON & SYRIA

Prof. Mahmoud Ayoub: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (General; History of Religion; Islamic Philosophers); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Education (General; Classical Education in the Muslim World; Islamic Pedagogy; Islamic Philosophers; Teaching About Islam); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Shi`a Islam; Sufism

Dr. Mohamed Nimer: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Minority Studies; Modernization; Nationalism) Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Peace Studies); Human Rights (Arab-Israeli Conflict); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Prof. Antony Sullivan: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Interfaith Relations); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Current Events; Conflict Resolution); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism


MAGHREB STUDIES

Prof. Peter K. Bechtold: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post Colonialism); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Ethnography); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Democratization)

Prof. John Entelis: Civil Society; Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Democratization; Development); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science

Sarah Swick: Cultural Issues (General; Cultural Studies; Development; Ethnography; Globalization; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies; Nationalism; Pop Culture); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Diaspora/Refugee Studies; Transnationalism); Gender/Women's Studies

 

MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES

Salam Al-Marayati: Communications (Cinema and Film; Media); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Cinema and Film; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Energy Studies)

Dr. Nimat Hafez Barazangi: Basic Islam; Civil Society (General; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Interfaith Relations); Education (General; Classical Education in the Muslim World; Madrassas; Teaching About Islam); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Women in Islam); Muslim Languages and Linguistics (General; Psycholinguistics)

Dr. Mohamed Nimer: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Minority Studies; Modernization; Nationalism) Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Peace Studies); Human Rights (Arab-Israeli Conflict); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Prof. Antony Sullivan: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Interfaith Relations); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Current Events); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism

 

PAKISTAN

Prof. Akbar Ahmed: Arts and Literature (Cinema and Film; Music, Theatre, and Other Performing Arts); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Education (Modern Education in the Muslim World; Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Conflict Resolution; Current Events; Development; Foreign Relations; Globalization; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Peace Studies); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Foreign Relations); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism and Imperialism (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Democratization, Imperialism)

Prof. Asma Barlas: Basic Islam; Civil Society (Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Development; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Education (Teaching About Islam); Gender/Women's Studies (Identity/Representation; Women in Islam)

Dr. Zahid H. Bukhari: Education (Madrassas); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism

Prof. Marcia Hermansen: Arts and Literature (Pop Culture); Basic Islam; Civil Society (General; Identity/Representation); Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Identity/ Representation); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation); Education (General; Classical Education in the Muslim World; Teaching About Islam); Gender/Women's Studies (Sexuality Studies); Human Rights (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion)

Prof. Muqtedar A. Khan: Classical Islamic Era (Islamic Philosophers); Cultural Issues (Identity/Representation; Modernization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Foreign Relations; Globalization); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Just War Theory; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Dr. Alam Payind: Basic Islam; Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Current Events); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science

Prof. Tamara Sonn: Civil Society (Minority Studies); Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion; Just War Theory); Cultural Issues (Minority Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Education (Madrassas; Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Just War Theory); Human Rights (General; Minority Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory; Minority Studies)

Dr. Zaman Stanizai: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (General; Minority Studies; Nationalism); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Conflict Resolution; Current Events; Democratization; Peace Studies); Muslim Languages and Linguistics; Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science; Sufism


PALESTINE/ISRAEL

Prof. Mohammed Abu-Nimer: Civil Society (General; Identity/Representation); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Diaspora/Refugee Studies; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Peace Studies); Human Rights (Arab-Israeli Conflict); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Minority Studies); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad: Basic Islam; Business, Economics, and Development; Civil Society; Classical Islamic Era (History of Science); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Human Rights (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Natural Sciences, Medicine and Health (General; History of Science); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Foreign Relations; Political Economy); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Salam Al-Marayati: Communications (Cinema and Film; Media); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Cinema and Film; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Energy Studies)

Prof. Mohammed Ayoob: Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Democratization; Security Studies); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism and Imperialism (Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Prof. Peter K. Bechtold: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post Colonialism); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Ethnography); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Democratization)

Prof. Charles Butterworth: Classical Islamic Era (General; Islamic Philosophers); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Education (General; Islamic Philosophers); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Arab-Israeli Conflict); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Faisal Kutty, LL.B., LL.M.: Communications (General; Media); Cultural Issues; Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory); Human Rights (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory)

Joseph Montville: Arts and Literature (Andalusi Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Andalusi Studies; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Conflict Resolution)

Dr. Mohamed Nimer: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Minority Studies; Modernization; Nationalism) Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Peace Studies); Human Rights (Arab-Israeli Conflict); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Prof. Abdallah Schleifer: Arts and Literature (Media); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Modernization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Media; Terrorism/Counterterrorism); Human Rights (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism and Imperialism (Arab-Israeli Conflict, Colonialism/Post-Colonialism); Sufism

Prof. Antony Sullivan: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Interfaith Relations); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Current Events); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism

 

SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES

Prof. Akbar Ahmed: Arts and Literature (Cinema and Film; Music, Theatre, and Other Performing Arts); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Education (Modern Education in the Muslim World; Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Conflict Resolution; Current Events; Development; Foreign Relations; Globalization; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Peace Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Foreign Relations); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism and Imperialism (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Democratization, Imperialism)

Dr. Munawar Anees: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (General; History of Science); Communications (General; Information Technology and Computing); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Andalusi Studies; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Education (General; Islamic Philosophers); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Sexuality Studies); Natural Sciences; Medicine and Health (General; History of Medicine)

Prof. Mohammed Ayoob: Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Democratization; Security Studies); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism and Imperialism (Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Prof. Asma Barlas: Basic Islam; Civil Society (Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Development; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Education (Teaching About Islam); Gender/Women's Studies (Identity/Representation; Women in Islam)

Dr. Zahid H. Bukhari: Education (Madrassas); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism

Maliha Chishti: Cultural Issues (Development; Globalization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Development; Peace Studies); Gender/Women's Studies

Prof. John Esposito: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Globalization; Identity/Representation; Modernization); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Democratization; Development); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Prof. Marcia Hermansen: Arts and Literature (Pop Culture); Basic Islam; Civil Society (General; Identity/Representation); Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Identity/ Representation); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation); Education (General; Classical Education in the Muslim World; Teaching About Islam); Gender/Women's Studies (Sexuality Studies); Human Rights (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion)

Prof. Muqtedar A. Khan: Classical Islamic Era (Islamic Philosophers); Cultural Issues (Identity/Representation; Modernization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Foreign Relations; Globalization); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Just War Theory; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Prof. Muhammed Shafiq: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Education (Classical Education in the Muslim World; Madrassas; Teaching About Islam)  

Prof. Tamara Sonn: Civil Society (Minority Studies); Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion; Just War Theory); Cultural Issues (Minority Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Education (Madrassas; Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Just War Theory); Human Rights (General; Minority Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory; Minority Studies)

Dr. Zaman Stanizai: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (General; Minority Studies; Nationalism); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Conflict Resolution; Current Events; Democratization; Peace Studies); Muslim Languages and Linguistics; Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science; Sufism

Dr. Sayyid Syeed: Basic Islam; Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Muslim Languages and Linguistics (General; Sociolinguistics)


SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES

Imam Feisal Abdulrauf: Basic Islam, Civil Society (General, Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Classical Islamic Era (General; History of Religion); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Cinema and Film; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Human Rights (Conflict Resolution); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion); Sufism

Prof. John Esposito: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Globalization; Identity/Representation; Modernization); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Democratization; Development); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Dr. Muneer Fareed: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Andalusi Studies; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence

Faisal Kutty, LL.B., LL.M.: Communications (General; Media); Cultural Issues; Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory); Human Rights (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory)

Prof. Aminah McCloud: Basic Islam; Civil Society (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Media; Minority Studies); Communications (Cinema and Film); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation); Cultural Issues (Cultural Studies); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Current Events; Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Diaspora/Refugee Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Foreign Relations); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)


SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN STUDIES

Dr. Hashim El-Tinay: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Conflict Resolution; Democratization; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Peace Studies); Human Rights (Conflict Resolution)

Dr. Merve Kavakci: Civil Society; Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Women in Islam); Human Rights (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Islamism; Political Science); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Human Rights/Religious Freedom)

Prof. Ali A. Mazrui: Communications (Globalization); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Culture Studies; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Modernization; Nationalism); Education (Modern Education in the Muslim World); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Conflict Resolution; Democratization; Development)

Prof. Aminah McCloud: Basic Islam; Civil Society (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Media; Minority Studies); Communications (Cinema and Film); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation); Cultural Issues (Cultural Studies); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Current Events; Diaspora/Refugee Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Foreign Relations); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Prof. Sulayman Nyang: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Development; Diaspora/Refugee Studies); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Foreign Relations; Political Economy)

Prof. John Voll: Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (General; Modernization; Nationalism); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Democratization); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Islamism); Sufism

 

SUDANESE STUDIES

Dr. Abubaker Al-Shingieti: Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Conflict Resolution; Current Events; Foreign Relations; Media; Security Studies; Terrorism/Counterterrorism); Human Rights (Minority Studies; Security Studies; Terrorism/Counterterrorism); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Minority Studies); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Foreign Relations); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Imperialism; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Prof. Peter K. Bechtold: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post Colonialism); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Ethnography); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Democratization)

Dr. Hashim El-Tinay: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Conflict Resolution; Democratization; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Peace Studies); Human Rights (Conflict Resolution)


TURKISH STUDIES

Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad: Basic Islam; Business, Economics, and Development; Civil Society; Classical Islamic Era (History of Science); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Human Rights (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Natural Sciences, Medicine and Health (General; History of Science); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Foreign Relations; Political Economy); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Prof. Mohammed Ayoob: Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Democratization; Security Studies); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism and Imperialism (Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Prof. Peter K. Bechtold: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post Colonialism); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Ethnography); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Democratization)

Prof. John Esposito: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Globalization; Identity/Representation; Modernization); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Democratization; Development); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Dr. Merve Kavakci: Civil Society; Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Women in Islam); Human Rights (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Islamism; Political Science); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Human Rights/Religious Freedom)

 

U.S.-CANADIAN MUSLIMS

Imam Feisal Abdulrauf: Basic Islam, Civil Society (General, Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Classical Islamic Era (General; History of Religion); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Cultural Studies; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Human Rights (Conflict Resolution); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion); Sufism

Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad: Basic Islam; Business, Economics, and Development; Civil Society; Classical Islamic Era (History of Science); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Human Rights (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Natural Sciences, Medicine and Health (General; History of Science); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Foreign Relations; Political Economy); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Prof. Azizah Al-Hibri: Basic Islam; Business; Economics and Development (Banking and Finance; Business Ethics; Business Law); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Identity/Representation; Sexuality Studies; Women in Islam); Human Rights (Conflict Resolution; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies)

Salam Al-Marayati: Communications (Cinema and Film; Media); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Cinema and Film; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Energy Studies)

Dr. Hisham Al-Talib: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion; History of Science; Islamic Philosophers; Just War Theory); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion); Education (Islamic Pedagogy; Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation; Just War Theory; Minority Studies)

Dr. Zainab Alwani: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (Andalusi Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Minority Studies); Education (Islamic Philosophers; Teaching About Islam); Gender/Women's Studies (Women in Islam); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Minority Studies)

Dr. Munawar Anees: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (General; History of Science); Communications (General; Information Technology and Computing); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Andalusi Studies; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Education (General; Islamic Philosophers); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Sexuality Studies); Natural Sciences, Medicine and Health (General; History of Medicine)

Prof. Mahmoud Ayoub: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (General; History of Religion; Islamic Philosophers); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Education (General; Classical Education in the Muslim World; Islamic Pedagogy; Islamic Philosophers; Teaching About Islam); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Shi`a Islam; Sufism

Prof. Ihsan Bagby: Civil Society (Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Cultural Studies; Ethnography; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Gender/Women's Studies (Women in Islam)

Dr. Nimat Hafez Barazangi: Basic Islam; Civil Society (General; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Interfaith Relations); Education (General; Classical Education in the Muslim World; Madrassas; Teaching About Islam); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Women in Islam); Muslim Languages and Linguistics (General; Psycholinguistics)

Dr. Jamal Barzinji: Basic Islam; Business, Economics, and Development (Accounting; Business Ethics) Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Minority Studies); Education (Madrassas; Modern Education in the Muslim World; Teaching About Islam); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization)

Dr. Bridget Blomfield: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (General; Just War Theory); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion); Cultural Issues (Ethnography; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Education (General; Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs; Gender/Women's Studies (General; Identity/ Representation; Women in Islam); Shi`a Islam; Sufism

Dr. Zahid H. Bukhari: Education (Madrassas); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism

Dr. Katherine H. Bullock: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Identity/Representation; Media); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Identity/Representation); Education; Gender/Women's Studies; Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Islamism)

Maliha Chishti: Cultural Issues (Development; Globalization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Development; Peace Studies); Gender/Women's Studies

Dr. Robert D. Crane: Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation; Just War Theory; Minority Studies); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Imperialism; Terrorism/Counterterrorism); Sufism

Dr. Aliaa Dakroury: Arts and Literature (Identity/Representation; Media); Civil Society (Journalism; Media); Communications (Media); Cultural Issues (Identity/Representation; Pop Culture); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Diaspora/Refugee Studies; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Media); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Identity/Representation; Women in Islam); Human Rights (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom)

Prof. Frederick M. Denny: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/ Representation); Human Rights (General; Human Rights/ Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Comparative Religion; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation); Sufism

Susan Douglass: Basic Islam; Education (General; Islamic Pedagogy; Teaching About Islam)

Prof. John Esposito: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Comparative Religion; Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Globalization; Identity/ Representation; Modernization); Education (Teaching About Islam); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Current Events; Democratization; Development); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Foreign Relations; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (General; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Dr. Muneer Fareed: Basic Islam; Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Andalusi Studies; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence

Dr. Hamada Hamid: Natural Sciences, Medicine and Health (General; Psychiatry/Mental Health)

Dr. Mazen Hashem: Basic Islam; Civil Society (General; Minority Studies); Gender/Women's Studies (General; Women in Islam); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Islamism)

Prof. Marcia Hermansen: Arts and Literature (Pop Culture); Basic Islam; Civil Society (General; Identity/Representation); Classical Islamic Era (History of Religion); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Identity/ Representation); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation); Education (General; Classical Education in the Muslim World; Teaching About Islam); Gender/Women's Studies (Sexuality Studies); Human Rights (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion)

Prof. James Jones: Civil Society (General; Identity/ Representation); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict; Current Events; Conflict Resolution; Peace Studies); Gender/Women's Studies (Identity/Representation); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Prof. Muqtedar A. Khan: Classical Islamic Era (Islamic Philosophers); Cultural Issues (Identity/Representation; Modernization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Foreign Relations; Globalization); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Islamism); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Just War Theory; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Faisal Kutty, LL.B., LL.M.: Communications (General; Media); Cultural Issues; Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Human Rights/ Religious Freedom; Just War Theory); Human Rights (General; Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (General; Comparative Religion; Human Rights/ Religious Freedom; Just War Theory); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory)

Prof. Ali A. Mazrui: Communications (Globalization); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Cultural Studies; Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Modernization; Nationalism); Education (Modern Education in the Muslim World); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Conflict Resolution; Democratization; Development)

Prof. Aminah McCloud: Basic Islam; Civil Society (Colonialism/ Post-Colonialism; Media; Minority Studies); Communications (Cinema and Film); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Comparative Religion; Identity/Representation); Cultural Issues (Cultural Studies); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Current Events; Diaspora/Refugee Studies); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Comparative Religion); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Foreign Relations); Security, Terrorism, Colonialism, and Imperialism (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Terrorism/Counterterrorism)

Prof. Khaleel Mohammed: Basic Islam; Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence

Dr. Aneesah Nadir: Civil Society (Health; Minority Studies; Social Services); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (General; Cultural Studies; Minority Studies); Education (Teaching About Islam); Gender/Women's Studies (Women in Islam); Natural Sciences, Medicine and Health (Psychiatry/Mental Health)

Dr. Mohamed Nimer: Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Minority Studies; Modernization; Nationalism) Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Peace Studies); Human Rights (Arab-Israeli Conflict); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Arab-Israeli Conflict)

Prof. Sulayman Nyang: Civil Society (Colonialism/Post-Colonialism; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (General; Identity/Representation; Interfaith Relations; Minority Studies); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (General; Development; Diaspora/Refugee Studies); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (General; Democratization; Foreign Relations; Political Economy)

Prof. Louay M. Safi: Classical Islamic Era (Islamic Philosophers); Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Globalization; Interfaith Relations); Cultural Issues (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Modernization); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Arab-Israeli Conflict; Democratization); Human Rights (Human Rights/Religious Freedom); Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Human Rights/Religious Freedom; Just War Theory); Political Islam, Democracy, and Political Science (Democratization; Islamism; Political Economy)

Sarah Swick: Cultural Issues (General; Cultural Studies; Development; Ethnography; Globalization; Human Rights/ Religious Freedom; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies; Nationalism; Pop Culture); Foreign Policy and International Affairs (Diaspora/Refugee Studies; Transnationalism); Gender/Women's Studies

Dr. Sayyid Syeed: Basic Islam; Comparative Religion and Interfaith Relations (Interfaith Relations); Muslim Languages and Linguistics (General; Sociolinguistics)

Dr. Jasmin Zine: Civil Society (Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Cultural Issues (Ethnography; Globalization; Identity/Representation; Minority Studies); Education (Islamic Philosophers; Madrassas; Modern Education in the Muslim World; Teaching About Islam); Gender/Women's Studies (Identity/Representation; Women in Islam); Human Rights (Identity/Representation; Minority Studies)