ISLAM
Muhammad and the power of religious imagery

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Natana J. Delong-Bas is a lecturer of near Eastern and Judaic studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Delong-Bas wrote the forthcoming book Notable Muslims: Profiles of Muslim Builders of World Civilization & Culture (Oneworld Publications, 2006). Contact 781-736-2978, delongba@brandeis.edu.
• Roy Mottahedeh is the Gurney Professor of Islamic History at Harvard University. His major work is on the premodern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East. He is also the faculty adviser of a new journal The Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review. Contact 617-495-8433, mottahed@fas.harvard.edu.
• Jamal J. Elias is a professor of religion at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He has written on visual religious art in Islam. Contact 413-542-2285, jjelias@amherst.edu.
• Abbas Amanat is chairman of the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Contact 203-432-1368, abbas.amanat@yale.edu.

IN THE EAST
• Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Literature and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University in New York. Contact 212-854-2584, rik2101@columbia.edu.
• Yvonne Y Haddad is professor of the history of Islam and Muslim-Christian relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Contact 202-687-2575, haddady@georgetown.edu.
• Ervand Abrahamiam is a professor of history at Baruch College in New York City. He is an expert on Islamic history. Contact 646-312-4327, Ervand_Abrahamian@baruch.cuny.edu.
• Patricia Crone is a professor of Islamic history at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in New Jersey. She is an expert in Islamic history and religion. Contact pcrone@Princeton.edu.
• Francis E. Peters is a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. He wrote Muhammad and the Origins of Islam (SUNY Press, 1994). Contact 212-998-8895, frank.peters@nyu.edu.
• Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub is a professor of Islamic studies and comparative religion at Temple University in Philadelphia. He wrote the book Islam in Faith and History (Oneworld Publications, 2005). Contact 215-204-5603, mayoub@temple.edu or ayoubrel@vm.temple.edu.
• Michael Cook is a professor of near Eastern studies at Princeton University in New Jersey. He is the author of Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Contact 609-258-5360, mcook@princeton.edu.
• Omid Safi is an assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. He edited Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism (Oneworld Publications, 2003). Contact 315-228-7690, osafi@mail.colgate.edu.
• Hamid Dabashi is professor of Iranian studies and Middle East and Asian languages and cultures at Columbia University in New York. Contact 212-854-7524, hd14@columbia.edu.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• Gordon Darnell Newby is a professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian studies at Emory University in Atlanta. He wrote The Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad (University of South Carolina Press, 1989). Contact 404-727-2717, gordon.newby@emory.edu.
• Brannon Wheeler is a visiting faculty member at the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. He co-edited the Historical Dictionary of Prophets in Islam and Judaism (Scarecrow Press, 2003). Contact 410-293-6300, bwheeler@usna.edu.
• Carl W. Ernst is a professor Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He wrote Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (UNC Press, 2003). Contact 919-962-3924, cernst@email.unc.edu.
• Herbert Berg is associate professor of philosophy and religion at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His area of expertise is Islam. Contact 910-962-3702, bergh@uncw.edu.
• Timothy Furnish is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Perimeter College in Alpharetta. He is an expert in Islamic and Middle Eastern history and Islamic fundamentalism as well as Mahdism (Islamic messianism. He is the author of Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama bin Laden (Praeger Publishers, 2005). Contact 770-274-5418, tfurnish@gpc.edu.
• Alan Godlas is an associate professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is an expert on Islam. Contact 706-542-1486, godlas@uga.edu.
• Bruce Lawrence is chair of the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University in Durham, N.C. He is author of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (Verso, 2005). He is an expert on comparative fundamentalism and Muslim networks. Contact 919-660-3506, bbl@duke.edu.

IN THE SOUTH
• Vincent Joseph Cornell is director of King Fahd Middle East Studies Program at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Contact 479-575-4157, vcornell@uark.edu.
• Claudia Liebeskind is an associate professor of Middle Eastern History at Auburn University in Alabama. Contact 334-844-6644, liebecl@auburn.edu.
• Randall L. Pouwels is a professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. He co-edited the book The History of Islam in Africa (Ohio University Press, 2000). Contact 501-450-5625. Randyp@uca.edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Mohammed Ayoob is University Distinguished Professor of International Relations at James Madison College at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Contact 517-353-3538, ayoob@msu.edu.
• Geneive Abdo is a fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. She is writing a book about Muslims in America. Contact 574-631-6970, Geneive.E.Abdo.3@nd.edu.
• Nelly Van Doorn-Harder is a professor of Islamic studies at the Department of Theology at Valparaiso University in Indiana. Contact 219-464-5307, pieternella.hardervandoorn@valpo.edu.
• Fred M. Donner is a professor of near Eastern history at the University of Chicago. He wrote Seeing the Origins of Islam in Historical Perspective. Contact 773-702-9544, f-donner@uchicago.edu.
• Alam Paynid is director of the Middle East Studies Center at Ohio State University in Columbus. Contact 614-292-5897, payind.1@osu.edu.
• Muqtadar Khan is assistant professor of political science and director of international studies at Adrian College in Adrian, Mich. He is author of American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom (Amana Publications, 2002). Contact 517-265-5161 ext. 3949, mkhan@adrian.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Norman Stillman is professor and Schusterman/Josey Chair in Judaic History at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He is an expert in medieval and modern Jewish and Islamic History. Contact 405-325-6001, nstillman@ou.edu.
• David Bryan Cook is an assistant professor of religious studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He specializes in the origins and historical development of Islam. Contact 713-348-2440, dbcook@rice.edu.
• Daniel C. Peterson is a professor of Arabic and currently serves as editor-in-chief and director of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative at the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Contact 801-422-3396, daniel_peterson@byu.edu.
• Mark R. Woodward is an associate professor of religious studies at Arizona State University in Tempe. One of his areas of research interest is Islam. Contact 480-965-2530, mataram@imap1.asu.edu.
• James E. Lindsay is an associate professor in the department of history at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. His area of expertise is Medieval Islamic history. Contact 970-491-6217, James.Lindsay@colostate.edu.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Amir Hussain is an associate professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He teaches and publishes about Islam and Muslim lives. Contact 310-338-5987, amir.hussain@lmu.edu.
• Zayn Kassam is an associate professor of religious studies and chair of the Religious Studies Department at Pomona College in California. She is an expert on Islamic society. Contact 909-607-4095, Zayn_Kassam@pomona.edu.
• Joel S. Fetzer is assistant professor of political science at Seaver College at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. He co-wrote Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Contact 310-506-6250, Joel.Fetzer@pepperdine.edu.