Imam Muhammad Ashafa is co-director with Pastor James Wuye of the Interfaith Mediation Center of the Muslim-Christian Dialogue in the Kaduna State, Northern Nigeria. As the eldest son of a Muslim scholar and spiritual leader of the Tijaniyya sufi order from a long line of Imams, Muhammad Ashafa grew...

Radia Bakkouch is the head of research and documentation for the 5th season of the InterFaith Tour program, a world tour project of interfaith initiatives whose mission is to identify, study and promote practices that contribute to peace. She was president and director of advocacy and research of Co...

Dr. Bechari, born in Morocco, is a leader and prolific and dynamic public figure in the landscape of European Islam. He is the President of the French National Federation of Muslims, one of the leading entities organizing Islam in France. He is also the Secretary General of the Islamic European Conf...

Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah was born in 1935 in the East of Mauritania. He is a scholar who grew up in a house known for its scholarship; his father Shaykh Mahfoudh Ben Bayah, may God have mercy on him, was one of the region’s eminent scholars and the head of the Conference of Mauritanian Scholars ...

Mahmoud Hamdi Zakzouk, born in Dakahlia on 27 December 1933, is an Egyptian academic and politician. He is a professor of philosophy and teaches philosophy at his alma mater, Al Azhar University. He is the Egypt's former minister of religious endowment which he held from 1996 to 2011. He obtaine...

Dr. Mustafa Ceric has served as the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1999. Ceric was educated at al-Azhar University in Cairo and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He served as the Imam of  the Islamic Center of Zagreb in Croatia, and later of the Islamic Cultural Center in ...

Hani Dawah is the current Deputy of the Senior Media Advisor to the Grand Mufti of Egypt. He is a 2017 International Fellow of KAICIID, Vienna; a member of the Interreligious Platform for Dialogue and Cooperation in the Arab World, as Representative of the Grand Mufti of Egypt, and an incumbent...

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is the only Muslim to be included in the Library of Living Philosophers and has written over 50 books and over 500 articles. A University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University, he remains one of the most influential Muslim scholars in the world for his work...

Since 1985, Dr. Farhan Ahmad Nizami is the Founder Director of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies , a recognized independent center of the University of Oxford, which was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth II. He was also elected Prince of Wales Fellow at Magdalen College and Emeritus Fel...

Dr. Hassan Nadhem is the Chairholder for the UNESCO Chair for Interreligious Dialogue Studies in the Islamic World at the University of Kufa, Iraq. A University professor, he has taught in many institutions and universities across the Arab world and the West: he is an at-distance lecturer and super...