ISLAM
Islam: a guide to U.S. experts and organizations

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi is professor of Islamic studies and co-director of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Conn. He co-edits The Muslim World, a journal devoted to the study of Muslim-Christian relations and to scholarly research on Islam and Muslim societies. Contact 860-509-9530 (office), 860-509-9534 (department), aburabi@hartsem.edu.
• Kecia Ali is a Mellon Fellow in Islamic Studies and Women's Studies at Brandeis University at Waltham, Mass. She wrote Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith and Jurisprudence (Oneworld Publications, 2006). Her areas of expertise include progressive Islam and women, gender and Islamic law and Muslim societies. The best way to reach her is through email. Contact 781-736-2953 (office), 781-736-2950 (department), alikecia@brandeis.edu.
• Sheila Blair is co-holder of the Norma Jean Calderwood Chair of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College's fine arts department and the Hamad bin Khalifa Chair in Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her expertise includes Islamic art, especially of Iran and Central Asia, art and architecture produced under the Mongols, and calligraphy and books. She and her husband and co-chairman, Jonathan Bloom, are at work on the exhibition Cosmophilia: Islamic Art From the David Collection, Copenhagen. Contact 617-552-8595, sheila.blair@bc.edu.
• Jonathan Bloom is co-holder of the Norma Jean Calderwood Chair of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and of the Hamad bin Khalifa Chair in Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. The author of many books on the history of Islamic art and architecture and the history of paper, he teaches courses on Islamic art, Islamic civilization, the arts of medieval Spain and the history of Jerusalem. He was a principal consultant to the PBS documentary Islam: Empire of Faith and is curating an exhibition on ornament in Islamic art from the David Collection, Copenhagen, that will be exhibited in Boston and Chicago during 2006-07. Contact 617-552-8595, jonathan.bloom@bc.edu or jmbloom@vcu.edu.
• Gerhard Heinrich Böwering is a professor of religious studies in Islamic studies at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. His expertise is in the fundamentals of the religion and in Sufism and mysticism in Islam. Contact 203-432-0828 (department), gerhard.bowering@yale.edu.
• Natana J. DeLong-Bas is a lecturer in the Near Eastern and Judaic studies department at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. She wrote Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad (Oxford University Press, 2004). Contact 781-736-2950 (department), delongba@brandeis.edu.
• Dale F. Eickelman is Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College. He is a social anthropologist and Islamicist whose areas of expertise are religion and politics in Muslim societies of the Middle East and Central Asia, society and deception and political intelligence. Contact 603-646-2621, Dale.F.Eickelman@dartmouth.edu.
• William A. Graham is dean of Harvard Divinity School, John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity and Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard University. His specialties are the religious history of Islam and the Quran and Hadith literatures, and comparative topics such as ritual, pilgrimage and scripture. Contact 617-495-4513 (office), 617-495-5757 (department), wgraham@fas.harvard.edu, or reach him through Suzanne Rom, secretary to the dean, 617-495-4513, suzanne_rom@harvard.edu.
• Frank Griffel is an assistant professor in the religious studies department at Yale University. Contact 203-432-0828 (department), frank.griffel@yale.edu.
• Ahmed S. Hashim specializes in security policies of the Middle East, Central and South Asia and is an associate professor of strategic studies in the strategic research department at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. He has published extensively on security and strategic issues and has written about Osama bin Laden and military and strategic issues between the U.S. and the Islamic nations. Contact 401-841-6981 (office), 401-841-6568 (department), ahmed.hashim@nwc.navy.mil.
• Sohail Hashmi is an associate professor of international relations at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. He is an expert on Islam, politics and foreign affairs. He posits that Islam lacks a tradition of political thought. Contact 413-538-2666 (office), 413-538-2657 (department), shashmi@mtholyoke.edu.
• Robert William Hefner is an anthropology professor and associate director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University, where he directs the program on Islam and civil society. His specialty area is religion and politics in Southeast Asia and the Muslim world, with a special focus on Islam, democratization and violence. Hefner has published more than a dozen books, as well as several major policy reports for government and private foundations. He directed a project for the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs titled "Madrasas, Modernity and the Future of Muslim Higher Education." He previously directed another Pew project, a multicountry, collaborative effort called "Civil Democratic Islam," on prospects and policies for civic pluralism and democracy in the Muslim world. Contact 617-353-2194 (office), 617-353-2195 (department), rhefner@bu.edu.
• Jytte Klausen is a sociologist and associate professor of comparative politics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Based on her interviews with more than 300 Muslim leaders in Europe, she says European Muslims are overwhelmingly liberal in outlook, with their biggest priority being to build a European Islam, independent of Islamic countries. Contact 781-736-2762, klausen@brandeis.edu.
• Yitzhak Nakash is an associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He is an expert on the interaction of Shiism and national identity in modern Iraq. Contact 781-736-2966, nakash@brandeis.edu.
• Nasser Rabbat is Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture in the history, theory and criticism section of the architecture department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is avidly interested in culture and its historical manifestations in architecture. His field is Islamic architectural history, and he is immersed in the history, languages and culture of the Islamic world. He is also a good source for discussion of modern culture and architecture in the Islamic world. Contact 617-253-1417, Rabbat@mit.edu.
• Mridu Rai is an assistant professor of history at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Her work focuses on Muslims in India and on issues of religion and politics in modern Kashmir. Contact 203-432-1354 (office), 203-432-1366 (department), mridu.rai@yale.edu.
• Kevin A. Reinhart is an associate professor of Islamic religious studies at Dartmouth College. His particular expertise is on Islamic legal thought, primarily in the pre-modern period. He is best reached through email. Contact 603-646-3204 (office), 603-646-3738 (department), a.kevin.reinhart@dartmouth.edu.
• Thomas W. Simons Jr. directs the Program on Eurasia in Transition at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His expertise is in modern and contemporary Islam in South and Southwest Asia. Contact 617-495-9302, tsimons@fas.harvard.edu.
• Muhammad Qasim Zaman is an associate professor of religious studies in the department of religious studies at Brown University in Providence, R.I. His areas of expertise include religious authority in classical, medieval and modern Islam; history of Islamic law in the Middle East and in late medieval and modern South Asia; institutions and traditions of learning in Islam; Islamic political thought; and contemporary religious and political movements in the Muslim world. Contact 401-863-3571 (office), 401-863-3104 (department), muhammad_qasim_zaman@brown.edu.

IN THE EAST
• Mohammed Abu-Nimer is an associate professor at the American University's School of International Service in International Peace and Conflict Resolution in Washington, D.C., where he directs the Peacebuilding and Development Institute. He is an expert on conflict resolution and dialogue for peace. He has researched, intervened and conducted conflict-resolution workshops in conflict areas around the world, including the Palestine territories, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Philippines (Mindanao), Sri Lanka, U.S. He wrote Nonviolence and Peace Building in Islam: Theory and Practice (University Press of Florida, 2003). Among his interests are work among Palestinians and Jews, application of conflict resolution models in Muslim communities, interreligious conflict resolution training and interfaith dialogue. Nimer works closely with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, authoring a yearly report on the status of Muslims' civil rights in the U.S. He also authors materials about accommodating Muslim religious practices in the workplace and institutions for corporate and institutional audiences, and he wrote The North American Muslim Resource Guide (Routledge, 2002), which profiles Muslim issues and history in North America and includes a directory of contact information for Muslim community organizations in the U.S. and Canada. Contact 202-885-1656, abunimer@american.edu.
• Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad is a senior lecturer at the University of Maryland. He teaches courses on religion, science, intellectual progress and freedom. Contact 301-907-0947, mfi@minerat.org.
• Maysam al-Faruqi is a visiting assistant professor in the theology department of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where she teaches courses on Islamic history and thought. Contact 202-687-4551 (office), 202-687-5846 (department), faruqim@georgetown.edu.
• Jon Wilson Anderson, chairman of the anthropology department at Catholic University of America, is a sociocultural anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of religion (ritual and symbol systems) and politics, new media and the social life of information technologies, and the Middle East. He co-edited New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere (Indiana University Press, 2002) and Reformatting Politics: Networked Communications and Global Civil Society (Routledge, 2006). He is researching the communications and information revolution in the Arab world, transnational cultures and the social organization of international "cyberspaces." Contact 202-319-5080, anderson@cua.edu.
• Talal Asad is a professor of anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center in New York. His expertise includes religion and secularism as part of modern Muslim societies, especially in the religious revival in the Middle East, and secular and modern influences on Shariah law. Contact 212-817-8005 (department), tasad@gc.cuny.edu.
• Peter J. Awn is dean of general studies and professor of Islamic religion and comparative religion at Columbia University in New York. He lectures to academic and business professionals on the role Islam plays in the current political and social development of the Muslim world and has written, among other things, about the role of the devil in Islam. Contact 212-854-6321 (office), 212-851-4122 (department), awn@columbia.edu.
• Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub is a professor of Islamic studies and comparative religion at Temple University in Philadelphia. Islam and its interreligious dialogue are among his areas of expertise. Contact 215-204-5603 (office), 215-300-2393 (mobile), 215-204-7973 (department), mayoub@temple.edu.
• Jonathan E. Brockopp is an associate professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa. He specializes in Islamic history and religion and Islamic law in the formative period (seventh-10th centuries) and is particularly interested in the literary remains of early Islam, including the Quran, Hadith, legal and theological texts. Other research interests include comparative religious ethics. He edited Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War and Euthanasia (University of South Carolina Press, 2003) and in March 2006 organized an international conference, "Islam and Bioethics: Concerns, Challenges and Responses." Contact 814-863-1338 (office), 814-865-1367 (department), brockopp@psu.edu.
• Zahid H. Bukhari directs American Muslim Studies Program at the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Previously, he directed the Muslims in the American Public Square Project, which looked at the contribution and role of Muslims in American public life. He also directs the Center for Islam and Public Policy. An economist, Bukhari has deep experience in survey research and previously directed the Pakistan Institute of Public Opinion in Islamabad. His areas of interest include religion and politics in the United States and South Asia. Contact 202-687-2947 (office), 202-687-8375 (department), zhb@georgetown.edu.
• Michael Cook is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His expertise is in the formation of Islamic civilization and the role played by religious values. Contact 609-258-4280, mcook@princeton.edu.
• Patricia Crone is a professor of Islamic history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. She is an expert in Islamic history and religion. Contact 609-734-8000 (department), pcrone@ias.edu.
• Faisal Devji is an assistant professor of humanities at the Eugene Lang College of New School University in New York. He has written on jihad, militancy and modernism in Islam. Contact 212-229-5717 ext. 3048, devjif@newschool.edu.
• Fawaz A. Gerges, professor of international affairs and Middle Eastern studies, holds the Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies in the history department at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. Gerges is a senior analyst and regular commentator for ABC Television News and a commentator for NPR's Morning Edition and has appeared on many television and radio networks throughout the world, including American networks and Aljazeera. Areas of expertise include Islam and the political process, Islamist and jihadist movements, Arab politics, American foreign policy in the Middle East, the modern history of the Middle East, history of conflict, diplomacy and foreign policy, historical sociology and international relations. He did several years of field research on relations between the Islamists, jihadists and the West, particularly the United States, in several Middle Eastern countries. Contact 914-395-2299 (office), 914-395-2219 (department), fgerges@slc.edu, or reach him through Judith Schwartzstein in the Sarah Lawrence media department, 914-395-2219, judiths@sarahlawrence.edu.
• Mary Habeck is an associate professor of strategic studies in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. Among her areas of expertise are American defense policy; Islamic religion, culture and law; military power and strategy; military history; strategic and security issues; and terrorism. Contact 202-663-5752 (office), 202-663-5600 (department), mhabeck1@jhu.edu.
• Dr. Hamada Hamid is a clinical fellow at New York University's Center for Global Health and a resident in the combined neurology and psychiatry program at New York University. He launched the Journal of Muslim Mental Health to encourage scholarship and discussion of stress and mental health issues particular to Muslims in the U.S. The editorial board lists experts around the country. Hamid also started a culturally sensitive mental health service in New York City. Contact 917-974-6138, hamadahamid@gmail.com.
• Bernard Haykel is associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. His principal interest is in how and why the Salafi movement (also called Wahhabism) under Saudi Arabia's patronage has become one of the most influential intellectual and political groups in the last half century. He also is expert on Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Shiism. Contact 212-998-8919, bernard.haykel@nyu.edu.
• Shams C. Inati, professor of Islamic theology and religious studies at Villanova University in Villanova, Pa., is a specialist in Islamic philosophy - particularly the problem of evil. She is an expert on Arab societies, religions and civilizations. She has a long list of publications, including Iraq: Its History, People and Politics (Humanity Books, 2003). Contact 610-519-7301, shams.inati@villanova.edu.
• Muqtedar Khan is a nonresident fellow of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and an assistant professor in the department of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware. Khan speaks and writes often about moderate or progressive Islam. He wrote American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom (Amana Publications, 2002). He is editor in chief of the Muslim Public Affairs Journal and is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy and the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. Contact 302-831-1939, mkhan@udel.edu.
• Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He focused his interest in the intersection between politics and culture on Islam in his book, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror (Pantheon, 2005). He is on sabbatical through Sept. 8, 2006. Contact 212-854-8777, mm1124@columbia.edu.
• Lawrence H. Mamiya is professor of religion at Vassar College outside of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and a widely recognized expert on African-American religion and the Nation of Islam. Contact 845-437-5522, mamiya@vassar.edu.
• Ali A. Mazrui is director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies and Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities/Professor in Political Science, African Studies and Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture at State University of New York at Binghamton. His expertise is in Islam and Africa. Contact 607-777-4494 (office), 607-777-2252 (department), amazrui@binghamton.edu.
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr is professor of Islamic studies in the religion department at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His expertise is in the history of science and philosophy in the Islamic world and comparative philosophy and religion. He is an internationally known scholar of Islam. Contact 202-994-5704 (office), 202-994-6325 (department), zsirat@gwu.edu.
• Sayed M. Omran is an associate professor of Arabic language and culture at Villanova University in Villanova, Pa. He is an expert on Islam and Arabic culture. His publications include, as translator, Islam and Human Ideology (Kegan Paul, 1997). Contact 610-519-6996, sayed.omran@villanova.edu.
• Francis E. Peters is a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies with concurrent appointments in the history and religious studies departments at New York University in New York. His current research is the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, particularly the lives and work of Jesus and Muhammad, and Muslim Spain. Contact 212-998-8880 (department), frank.peters@nyu.edu.
• Lawrence Rosen is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J, and an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University Law School. He was, in 1981, among the first winners of the MacArthur Foundation "genius grants." His interest is in contemporary Muslim culture and law. Contact 609-258-2671 (office), 609-258-5535 (department), lrosen@princeton.edu.
• John O. Voll is a professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. He has taught Middle Eastern history, Islamic history and world history and has written about continuity and change in the Muslim world and on contemporary Islam. Contact 202-687-0288, vollj@georgetown.edu.
• Brannon Wheeler is a Visiting Distinguished Professor of History and Politics and director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Wheeler is a scholar of the religion and its history. He has been a legal consultant in cases involving Islam and religious discrimination, child custody, asylum, First Amendment, marriage and inheritance. Contact 410-293-6300 (department), bwheeler@usna.edu.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University Law School in Atlanta. He teaches international law and comparative constitutional law, international institutions and Islamic law. His research includes human rights in cross-cultural perspectives, constitutionalism in Islamic and African countries, Islam and politics, Islamic family law and women and the law in African countries. Contact 404-727-1198 (office), 404-727-6816 (department), abduh46@law.emory.edu.
• Herbert Berg is an associate professor in the department of religion and philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is an expert in African-American Islam (particularly Elijah Muhammad) and myth-making and the origins of Islam. Contact 910-962-3702 (office), 910-962-3406 (department), bergh@uncw.edu.
• Michaelle L. Browers is an assistant professor in the political science department of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. Her expertise is in Arab and Islamic political thought, political ideologies, feminist theory and democratic theory. Contact 336-758-3535 (office), 336-758-5449 (department), browerm@wfu.edu.
• Carl W. Ernst is William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a specialist in Islamic studies, focusing on West and South Asia, and is an expert on Sufism. Contact 919-962-3924, cernst@email.unc.edu.
• Richard C. Foltz is an associate professor of religion at the Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. His areas of expertise are Iran, its history and religion, and Islam and environmentalism. Contact 514-848-2424 ext. 5730, rfoltz@alcor.concordia.ca.
• Alan Godlas is an associate professor in the religion department at the University of Georgia in Athens. He teaches courses on Islam, Quran and Hadith studies, Arabic and Persian, and Sufism. Contact 706-542-1486 (office), 706-542-5356 (department), godlas@uga.edu.
• John Kelsay is Distinguished Research Professor and Richard L. Rubenstein Professor of Religion at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His focus is on religious ethics, particularly in relation to Islamic tradition and law. Contact 850-644-0209, jkelsay@garnet.acns.fsu.edu.
• Charles Kurzman is associate professor of sociology and associate director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written about the Islamic revolution in Iran, about liberalizing influences in Islam and about modern Islam. Contact 919-962-1241 (office), 919-962-1007 (department), kurzman@unc.edu.
• Bruce B. Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion and director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center at Duke University in Durham, N.C. An Islamicist specializing in comparative religion, he calls himself an "Abrahamic pluralist." Among his books are Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence (Princeton University Press, 2000), a comparative study of global Islam that was translated into Arabic and Indonesian. He sparked controversy with his publication of Osama bin Laden's statements, Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (Verso, 2005). Lawrence can discuss the Quran, Islamic fundamentalist revolt against modernism, Islam in Asia and Asian religions in America. Contact 919-660-3506 (office), 919-660-3510 (department), bbl@duke.edu.
• Peter P. Mandaville is an associate professor of government and politics and directs the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. His expertise is in international politics and Islam. His current research is on the role of Muslim organizations and leadership in Europe and North America; madrassas and education in the Muslim world; and social/political development in the Muslim world. He is on leave until late August 2006. Contact 703-993-1054 (office), 703-993-1400 (department), pmandavi@gmu.edu.
• Richard C. Martin is a professor in the religion department at Emory University in Atlanta. His scholarly interests include Islamic studies, comparative religions and religion and conflict. He has written several books about the history and study of Islam. He has lived and done research in Egypt and elsewhere in the Muslim world and is engaged in cooperative projects with Muslim scholars. Contact 404-727-7544 (office), 404-727-6333 (department), rcmartin@emory.edu.
• George J. Michael is an assistant professor of administration of justice in the social and behavioral sciences department at University of Virginia's College at Wise. He wrote The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right (University Press of Kansas, 2006). Contact 276-376-4581 (office), gjm3a@uvawise.edu.
• Abdulaziz A. Sachedina is a professor of Islamic and Shiite studies in the theological and juridical studies program of the religious studies department at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. His research areas have included the Middle East, East Africa and South Asia in Arabic, Persian, Swahili and Urdu-Hindi. He can discuss religious fundamentalism, war and peace, political ethics and interfaith relations in Islam. He is currently researching Islamic biomedical ethics and law, comparative Sunni-Shiite legal theory, and Christian-Muslim and Jewish-Muslim relations. Contact 434-924-6725 (office), 434-924-3741 (department), Sachedina@virginia.edu.
• Tamara Sonn is the Kenan Professor of Humanities and professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. She is also affiliated with the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy in Washington, D.C. Her areas of specialization are Islamic intellectual history and Islam in the contemporary world. Contact 757-221-2181 (office), 757-221-2175 (department), txsonn@wm.edu or tsonn@islam-democracy.org.

IN THE SOUTH
• Ihsan Bagby is an associate professor of Islamic studies in the department of modern and classical languages, literatures and cultures at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He studies Muslims in the United States, including the growth of Islam here, African-Americans and Islam, demographics of American Muslims and the growth of Islam in prisons. He is an expert on pluralism, mosque organization and imams. He helped facilitate the first endorsement of a Muslim chaplain in the U.S. armed forces. In 2001 he published the results of the first comprehensive study of mosques in America, "The Mosque in America: A National Portrait," for the Council on American-Muslim Relations, on whose board he serves. He also serves on the advisory board of Hartford Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion Research. Contact 859-257-9638 (office), 859-257-3761 (department), iabagb2@uky.edu.
• Vincent Cornell is a history professor and director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas, and he has taught in numerous academic centers of Islam in the U.S. His expertise ranges widely, including Islamic thought, Sufism, philosophy and Islamic law. 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 history professor at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. He co-edited The History of Islam in Africa (Ohio University Press, 2000). Contact 501-450-5625, Randyp@uca.edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Asma Afsaruddin is an associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies in the classics department at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Her fields of specialization are the religious and political thought of Islam, Quran and Hadith studies, and Islamic intellectual history. She is on the advisory board of Karamah, a women's and human rights organization based in Washington, D.C., and is on the board of directors of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy. Contact 574-631-8677 (office), 574-631-7195 (department), Asma.Afsaruddin.1@nd.edu.
• Jon Armajani is an assistant professor in the department of philosophy and religious studies at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn. He has written about contemporary Islam, liberal Muslim perspectives and America's collision with modern Muslims. Contact 320-363-6099 (office), 320-363-5011 (department), jarmajani@csbsju.edu.
• 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.
• Robert R. Bianchi is a lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School and an international lawyer and political scientist with a special interest in the Islamic world. As a consultant, he has worked with international organizations and government agencies, including the World Bank, the State Department, the Defense Department and the Agency for International Development. Typical projects concern building economic reform coalitions in developing countries, managing alliances with Middle Eastern states and reconstructing the legal and constitutional systems of war-torn societies. His practice areas include international business, immigration and human rights law. He has represented asylum-seekers from Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia. He is an adviser on Islamic law and legal systems that combine Islamic principles with common law, civil law and indigenous custom. Contact Beyazomar@aol.com.
• John Richard Bowen, a sociocultural anthropologist, is Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He specializes in issues that arise with the migration of Islam. Contact 314-935-5680 (office), 314-935-5252 (department), jbowen@wustl.edu.
• Edward E. Curtis IV is Millennium Scholar of the Liberal Arts and an associate professor of religious studies and Amderican studies at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. He is editor of the Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States (Columbia, 2008) and wrote Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975 (UNC Press, 2006) and Islam in Black America: Identity, Liberation, and Difference in African-American Islamic Thought (State University of New York Press, 2002). Contact 317-278-1683 or 317-274-1465 (department), ecurtis4@iupui.edu.
• Marcia K. Hermansen, professor of Islamic and religious studies in the theology department at Loyola University in Chicago, has written about Islam and gender, Sufism in the West, Islamic mysticism, contemporary and classical Islamic thought, Islam in South Asia, conversion to Islam and Muslims in America. Contact 773-508-2345 (office), 773-508-2351 (department), mherman@luc.edu.
• Sherman A. Jackson (aka Abd al-Hakim) is a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Michigan law school and has a pending appointment at the university's Center for Afro-American and African Studies. He is a member of the editorial board of DePaul University's Journal of Islamic Law and Culture. His expertise is in Islamic law, theology and black American Islam. The American Learning Institute for Muslims says Jackson's expertise involves concepts of constitution, tyranny, and power within Islamic law - particularly relevant as Muslims strive to come to terms with the classical Islamic legal traditions. Contact 734-763-4671 (office), 734-764-0314 (department), sajackso@umich.edu.
• Aminah B. McCloud is an Islamic studies professor in the department of religious studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She is expert in American and African-American Islam, including Nation of Islam, Islam in prison and Louis Farrakhan. Contact 773-325-1290 (office), 773-325-4905 (department), amccloud@depaul.edu.
• Mustansir Mir is a professor of Islamic studies in the department of philosophy and religious studies and director of the Center for Islamic Studies at Youngstown State University in Ohio. Ask him general questions about the Muslim faith. Contact 330-941-1625 (office), 330-941-3448 (department), mmir@ysu.edu.
• John Renard is a professor in the department of theological studies at St. Louis University in Missouri. He has written on Islam and Sufism. Contact 314-977-2869 (office), 314-977-2881 (department), renardgj@slu.edu.
• Vernon James Schubel is a professor in the religious studies department of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He teaches religion 101 and a variety of courses on Islam, including classical Islam, Islam in Central Asia, Sufism and religions of South Asia. Contact 740-427-5801 (office), 740-427-5655 (department), schubel@kenyon.edu.
• Nelly Van Doorn-Harder is an associate professor of Islamic studies in the theology department at Valparaiso University in Indiana. Contact 219-464-5307, ieternella.hardervandoorn@valpo.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• David Bryan Cook is an assistant professor of religious studies at Rice University in Houston, specializing in the origins and historical development of Islam. He can discuss early Islam, Muslim apocalyptic literature and movements for radical social change, Judeo-Arabic literature and West African Islam. Contact 713-348-2440, dbcook@rice.edu.
• Frederick M. Denny is professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His expertise is in Islam in the contemporary world, including religious ideas and practices, demographics, women in Islam, Shiism and Sufism, Quran studies, Islamic education in Malaysia and Indonesia, and Islam and Muslim communities in North America. Contact 303-492-6358, frederick.denny@colorado.edu.
• M. Hakan Yavuz is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He has written about Islamic movements in Turkey, the Nor and Naksibendi Sufi groups, and Kurdish nationalism in Turkey. Contact 801-585-7986 (office), 801-581-7031 (department), hakan.yavuz@poli-sci.utah.edu.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Hamid Algar is a professor in the Near Eastern studies department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches courses on Persian literature, the history of Islam, Shiism and Sufism. He has deep expertise on the Islamic revolution in Iran. He can discuss many aspects of Islam, including the diversity of Islamic culture and various expressions of the religion. Contact 510-642-6179 (office), 510-642-3757 (department), algar@calmail.berkeley.edu.
• Khaled Abou El Fadl is an internationally recognized professor of law and the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Fellow in Islamic Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an expert on Islamic political thought. He teaches Islamic law, Middle Eastern investment law, immigration law and courses related to human rights and terrorism. He works with human rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights), and serves as an expert witness in international litigation involving Middle Eastern law, and in cases involving immigration law and political asylum claims. Contact 310-206-5401 (office), 310-825-4841 (department), fakoor@law.ucla.edu. Or contact his press agent, Grace Song, 310-710-7345, anmargrace@yahoo.com.
• Joel S. Fetzer, associate professor of political science in the social science division at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., is expert in the areas of religion and immigration, public opinion about immigration, Muslim minorities in the West, anti-immigrant movements in the United States and Europe, the Christian Right in California and the prosecution of religiously motivated offenders in America. Contact 310-506-6250 (office), 310-506-4372 (department), Joel.Fetzer@pepperdine.edu.
• Zayn R. Kassam is associate professor of religious studies at Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. Her area of concentration is Islam and women. Contact 909-607-4095 (office), 909-607-3075 (department), zayn_kassam@pomona.edu.
• Timur Kuran is a professor of economics and law and King Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought and Culture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Ask him about contemporary attempts to restructure economies according to Islamic teachings. His current research explores why the Middle East, once relatively advanced, has fallen behind in organizational efficiency, technological creativity and commercial competitiveness. He is intrigued by the study of hidden preferences, the unpredictability of social revolutions, the dynamics of ethnic conflict, the evolution of morality, perceptions of discrimination, and cultural change and how dishonesty about one's aims affects all of these. Contact 213-740-2102, kuran@usc.edu.
• Saba Mahmood is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests include Islam and religious reform movements, secular modernity in postcolonial societies, ethics and gender. She wrote Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton University Press, 2005), based on a grassroots women's piety movement in Egypt. Her current project is a study of secularism in Egypt and Lebanon. Contact 510-642-3565 (office), 510-642-3391 (department), smahmood@berkeley.edu.
• Ivan A. Strenski is a professor and Holstein Endowed Chairholder in religious studies at University of California, Riverside. His article "Sacrifice, Gift and the Social Logic of Muslim 'Human Bombers'" was published in 2004 in the journal Terrorism and Political Violence. Contact 951-827-5986, ivan.strenski@ucr.edu.