Participants

Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem

Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem is the King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies and director of the Centre for Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University.

Amin Abdullah

Amin Abdullah is a professor of philosophy at Sunan Kalijaga Islamic State University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Hussein Abdulsater

Hussein Abdulsater is assistant professor in the Program in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at Notre Dame University.

Alparslan Acikgenc

Alparslan Acikgenc is director of postgraduate studies at Yildiz Technical University.

Asma Afsaruddin

Asma Afsaruddin is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Albakri Ahmad

Dr. Albakri Ahmad is dean of the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura, MUIS) Academy and senior director of capacity building for MUIS.

Khaled Akasheh

Monsignor Khaled Akasheh is secretary of the Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims and bureau chief for Islam at the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue.

Shabbir Akhtar

Shabbir Akhtar was an associate member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom until his death in 2023.

Akintunde Akinade

Akintunde Akinade is professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

Seyed Amir Akrami

Seyed Amir Akrami is an Iranian scholar with research interests that include Islamic philosophy and interreligious relations.

Afifi al-Akiti is KFAS Fellow in Islamic Studies and Islamic Centre lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, as well as College Lecturer in World Religions at Oxford's Worcester College.

Yousif al-Khoei

Yousif al-Khoei is the executive director of the Al-Khoei Foundation in London and director of the Centre for Academic Shi'a Studies.

Syed Farid Alatas

Dr. Syed Farid Alatas is professor of sociology at the National University of Singapore.

Denis Alexander

Denis Alexander is emeritus director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge.

Muhammad Modassir Ali

Muhammad Modassir Ali is an assistant professor at the Muhammad Bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization in Hamad Bin Khalifa University's College of Islamic Studies.

Zainab Alwani

Zainab Alwani is the founding director of the Islamic Studies program at Howard University School of Divinity, where she is associate professor of Islamic studies and chair of the Religious Studies Master of Arts program.

Naumana Amjad

Naumana Amjad is associate professor at the Institute of Applied Psychology, University of Punjab, where she has taught since 1991.

Clare Amos

Dr. Clare Amos is director and trustee for the Jerusalem and the Middle East Church Association.

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University, where he focuses on cross-cultural human rights issues, with an emphasis on Islam. He is also a faculty member of the Emory College of Arts and Sciences and the Emory University Center for Ethics. He directs projects on women and land in Africa and Islamic family law. During the fall 2009 semester he was a…

Anba Angaelos

Archbishop Angaelos is the first Coptic Orthodox archbishop of London.

Ovamir Anjum

Ovamir Anjum is Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Toledo.

Betul Avci

Betül Avcı is an associate professor of religious studies at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul.

Najib George Awad

Najib George Awad, a theologian and poet originally from Syria, is professor of Christian theology and Eastern Christian thought at Hartford Seminary; he is also director of its Ph.D. program in Islamic studies and Christian-Muslim relations.

Mahmoud Ayoub

Mahmoud M. Ayoub is a faculty associate in Shi’ite Islam and Christian-Muslim relations affiliated with the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary.

Mehdi Azaiez

Mehdi Azaiez is a professor of Islamic studies at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium.

Azyumardi Azra

Azyumardi Azra is the director of the graduate school at Sharif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta.

John Azumah

John Azumah is a professor of world Christianity and Islam and the director of international programs at Columbia Theological Seminary.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is a Malaysian politician who served as prime minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009.

Zaki Badawi

Sheikh Zaki Badawi, who died in 2006, was a prominent Egyptian Islamic scholar, community activist, and promoter of interfaith dialogue.

Azizan Baharuddin

Azizan Baharuddin is a professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur.

Kenneth Bailey

Kenneth Bailey, who died in 2016, was a New Testament scholar and Canon Theologian of the Diocese of Pittsburgh of the Episcopal Church.

Osman Bakar

Osman Bakar is a distinguished professor and the director of the Sultan Omar 'Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies at University Brunei Darussalam.

Thomas Banchoff

Thomas Banchoff is director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and serves as vice president for global engagement at Georgetown University, where he is a professor in the Department of Government and the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Richard Bauckham

Richard Bauckham is Senior Scholar at Cambridge University's Ridley Hall.

Angela Berlis

Dr. Angela Berlis is Professor in History of Old Catholicism and General Church History at the University of Bern.

Reinhold Bernhardt

Dr. Reinhold Bernhardt is Professor of Systematic Theology and Dogmatics at the University of Basel.

Nahide Bozkurt

Nahide Bozkurt is professor of Islamic history at Ankara University.

Clarissa Breu

Dr. Clarissa Breu is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department for New Testament Studies at the University of Vienna.

John Hedley Brooke

John Hedley Brooke is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science & Religion emeritus and Emeritus Fellow at Harris Manchester College in the University of Oxford.

Alexandra Brown

Alexandra Brown is the Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor of Bible at Washington and Lee University.

Jonathan A.C. Brown

Jonathan A.C. Brown is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he is also the director of the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding. His current research focuses on Islamic legal reform and a translation of Sahih al-Bukhari. He previously taught a class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle…

Richard Burridge

The Rev'd. Canon Professor Richard A. Burridge is a biblical scholar, ethicist, theologian, and social commentator who has published over a dozen books and hundreds of other articles or publications.

Sunil Caleb

The Revd. Dr. Sunil M. Caleb is the principal of Bishop’s College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Yousef Casewit

Yousef Casewit is assistant professor of Qur'anic studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Mark Chan

Mark Chan is the Earnest Lau Professor of Systematic Theology and the director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia at Trinity Theological College in Singapore.

Jonathan Chaplin

Jonathan Chaplin is a member of the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge and a research associate of the religion and society think tank Theos. He was director of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics at Tyndale House, Cambridge, United Kingdom, from 2006 to 2017.

Roland Chia

Roland Chia is the Chew Hock Hin Chair of Christian Doctrine at Trinity Theological College in Singapore.

Emmanuel Clapsis

Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis is Archbishop Iakovos Professor of Orthodox Theology at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Stephen Cook

Stephen Cook is the Catherine N. McBurney Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Virginia Theological Seminary.

M. Shawn Copeland

M. Shawn Copeland is professor emerita of theology at Boston College.

Vincent J. Cornell

Vincent J. Cornell is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies at Emory University.

Caner Dagli

Caner Dagli is an associate professor in religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross, specializing in Qur'anic studies, interfaith dialogue, and philosophy.

Maria Massi Dakake

Maria Massi Dakake is an associate professor of religious studies at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia.

Ahmad Dallal

Ahmad Dallal is the dean of Georgetown University in Qatar.

Ellen Davis

Ellen Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School.

Gavin D’Costa

Gavin D’Costa is professor of Catholic theology at the University of Bristol, where he has taught since 1993.

Celia Deane-Drummond

Celia Deane-Drummond is the inaugural director of the Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing and a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Valentin Dedji

Revd. Dr. Valentin Dedji is minister at Edmonton Methodist Church, London, and also regularly teaches in Benin.

Lejla Demiri

Lejla Demiri is Chair of Islamic Doctrine at the Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen.

Saban Ali Duzgun

Şaban Ali Düzgün is professor of Islamic theology in the Department of Theology at Ankara University.

Susan Eastman

Susan Eastman is an associate research professor emerita of the New Testament at Duke Divinity School.

Friedmann Eissler

Dr. Friedmann Eissler is an ordained minister in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg, Germany.

Waleed El-Ansary

Dr. Waleed El-Ansary is Helal, Hisham and Laila Edris El-Swedey University Chair in Islamic Studies at Xavier University, where he teaches courses on comparative religion, Islamic studies, and religion and science.

Salwa El-Awa

Salwa El-Awa is a lecturer in modern languages at Swansea University, specializing in Arabic and Islamic studies.

Mahmoud Amin el-Gamal

Mahmoud Amin el-Gamal is professor of economics and statistics and Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management at Rice University.

Marwa Elshakry

Marwa Elshakry is an associate professor of the history of science at Columbia University, specializing in the history of science, technology, and medicine in the modern Middle East.

John Esposito

John L. Esposito is a University Professor, professor of religion and international affairs, professor of Islamic studies, and the founding director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.

Carolyn Evans

Carolyn Evans is the Harrison Moore Professor of Law and the dean of the University of Melbourne Law School.

Malcolm Evans

Sir Malcolm Evans is a professor of public international law in the University of Bristol School of Law.

C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell

C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell is principal of Redcliffe College.

Stephen Fields

Stephen Fields, S.J., is an associate professor of the philosophy of religion and systematic theology at Georgetown University.

Michael L. Fitzgerald

Cardinal Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M.Afr., is considered one of the Roman Catholic Church’s leading experts on Islam.

David Ford

David Ford is an Anglican theologian, the Regius Professor of Divinity emeritus at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Selwyn College.

Brandon Gallaher

Brandon Gallaher is a senior lecturer of systematic and comparative theology in the University of Exeter's Department of Theology and Religion; he also serves as the Orthodox associate chaplain in Exeter's Multi-Faith Chaplaincy.

Lucy Gardner

Revd. Lucy Gardner is a tutor in Christian doctrine at St. Stephen's House, University of Oxford, where she has taught since 1993.

Timothy Gianotti

Timothy J. Gianotti is an associate professor in Renison University College's Studies in Islam program at the University of Waterloo.

Ida Glaser

Ida Glaser is academic director of the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies in Oxford and an associate tutor at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

Hugh Goddard

Hugh Goddard is an honorary professorial fellow and was the founding directer from 2009 to 2017 for the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh.

Sidney H. Griffith

Sidney H. Griffith is ordinary professor emeritus in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures in the Catholic University of America's School of Arts and Sciences.

Yvonne Haddad

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Haddad's fields of expertise include twentieth-century Islam; intellectual, social and political history in the Arab world; and Islam in North America and the West. Haddad's most recent research focuses on…

Resid Hafizovic

Rešid Hafizović is a professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies of Sarajevo University.

Sherine Hamdy

Sherine Hamdy is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

Feras Hamza

Feras Hamza is associate professor in international studies at the University of Wollongong in Dubai.

Harriet Harris

Rev. Dr. Harriet Harris is the university chaplain and chaplaincy service head at the University of Edinburgh, as well as a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church.

David Bentley Hart

David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian, philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator.

Ramon Harvey

Ramon Harvey is the Aziz Foundation Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College where he teaches Islamic theology.

Riffat Hassan

Riffat Hassan is a professor emerita of religious studies at the University of Louisville, where she taught for 33 years until her 2009 retirement.

Christopher M. Hays

Christopher M. Hays is president of ScholarLeaders International (Illinois, USA), director of the Faith and Displacement project at the Biblical Seminary of Colombia in Medellín, and a fellow at the Center for Enterprise, Markets, and Ethics at Oxford University.

Katharina Heyden

Dr. Katharina Heyden is a Professor of the Ancient History of Christianity and Interreligious Encounters at the University of Bern.

Dževad Hodžić

Dževad Hodžić is a professor of ethics and philosophy at the Sarajevo Faculty of Islamic Studies, as well as a Member of Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina representing the Party of Democratic Action (Stranka demokratske akcije).

Leslie J. Hoppe

Leslie J. Hoppe, OFM, is Carroll Stuhlmueller Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies at the Catholic Theological Union.

Damian Howard

Damian Howard, S.J., is an English Jesuit priest and provincial superior of the Jesuit British Province.

Toby Howarth

Rt. Revd. Dr. Toby Howarth is bishop of Bradford in the Church of England's Diocese of Leeds.

Samia Huq

Dr. Samia Huq is a research fellow at the Centre for Peace and Justice at BRAC University as well as an associate professor and interim dean of humanities and social sciences at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Musharraf Hussain

Musharraf Hussain is the chief executive of the Karimia Institute in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Josiah Idowu-Fearon

Rt. Rev. Josiah Idowu-Fearon has been secretary-general of the Anglican Consultative Council (which facilitates the work of the Anglican Communion) since 2015.

Michael Ipgrave

The Right Reverend Dr. Michael Ipgrave is the bishop of Lichfield in the Church of England.

Tuba Işik

Tuba Işik is a professor of Islamic education and practical theology in the Berlin Institute of Islamic Theology at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Sherman Jackson

Sherman A. Jackson is the King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and professor of religion and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

Philip Jenkins

Philip Jenkins is a distinguished professor of history at Baylor University and co-director for Baylor's Program on Historical Studies of Religion in the Institute for Studies of Religion.

Ann Jervis

Ann Jervis is professor of New Testament at Wycliffe College, with a cross-appointment to the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.

Paul Joyce

Paul Joyce is Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Kings College, London.

François Kaboré

François Pazisnewende Kaboré, S.J., is a Jesuit priest from Burkina Faso serving as director of the Center for Research and Action for Peace (Le Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour la Paix) and Institute of Dignity and Human Rights (Institut de la Dignité et des Droits Humains) in Cote d'Ivoire.

Wadad Kadi

Wadad Kadi is the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Islamic Studies Emerita at the University of Chicago.

Mohsen Kadivar

Mohsen Kadivar is a research professor of Islamic studies at Duke University's Department of Religious Studies.

Ibrahim Kalin

Ibrahim Kalin serves as the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Agency and as an advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Mohammad Hashim Kamali

Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali is the founding CEO and chairman of the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies of Malaysia.

Azza Karam

Azza Karam is a member of the United Nations’ Secretary General High Level Advisory Board on Multilateralism, a professor of religion and development at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, secretary general emerita of Religions for Peace International, and president and CEO of the Women’s Learning Partnership.

Fikret Karcic

Fikret Karčić is a professor at the Faculty of Law and of Islamic Studies at the University of Sarajevo.

Enes Karic

Enes Karić is a professor of Qur’anic studies at the Faculty of Islamic Studies of the University of Sarajevo.

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and docent of ecumenics at the University of Helsinki.

Bekir Karliga

Bekir Karliga is a scholar of Islamic philosophy, comparative East-West philosophy, the history of civilizations, and intercultural dialogue.

Assaad Elias Kattan

Assaad Elias Kattan is a professor in Orthodox theology at the Centre of Religious Studies at the University of Münster.

Muhammad Khalifa

Muhammad K. Khalifa is director of the Al-Qaradawi Center for Islamic Moderation and Renewal at Hamad Bin Khalifa University's College of Islamic Studies.

Mohammad Hassan Khalil

Mohammad Hassan Khalil is associate professor of religious studies, adjunct professor of law, and director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University.

Adeel Khan

Adeel Khan is a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge writing a dissertation on South Asian intellectual history.

Sivin Kit

Rev. Dr. Sivin Kit, a pastor of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia, is the program executive for public theology and interreligious relations with the Lutheran World Federation.

Katsuhiro Kohara

Katsuhiro Kohara is professor of systematic theology in the Doshisha University School of Theology in Japan, where he is the director of the Center for Study of Conscience and deputy director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions.

Felix Korner

Fr. Felix Körner, S.J., is the director of the Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures and professor in the Faculty of Missiology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.

Basit Koshul

Basit Koshul is associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, where he has taught since 2006.

Julia Lamm

Julia Lamm is a professor of theology and a faculty fellow at the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

John Langan

John P. Langan, S.J,. was the Cardinal Bernardin Chair in Catholic Social Thought in the Department of Philosophy, Rose Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and a faculty fellow at the Berkley Center at Georgetown University until his death in March 2020.

Jacqueline Lapsley

Jacqueline E. Lapsley is dean and vice president of academic affairs at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she is also professor of Old Testament and director of the Center for Theology, Women, and Gender.

Michael Lewis

The Rt. Revd. Michael Lewis has been the Anglican bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf since 2007.

Bogdan Lubardic

Bogdan Lubardič is assistant professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at Belgrade University.

Daniel Madigan

Rev. Daniel Madigan, S.J., an Australian Jesuit priest, is chair of the Loyola Institute at Australian Catholic University.

Maleiha Malik

Maleiha Malik is a professor of law at King’s College London.

Joel Marcus

Joel Marcus is professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Duke Divinity School.

Zorica Maros

Zorica Maros is assistant professor in the Catholic Faculty of the University of Sarajevo.

David Marshall

Rev. David Marshall is the academic director of the Building Bridges Seminar, one of the world’s leading projects in theological dialogue between Muslim and Christian scholars.

Dennis McAuliffe

Dennis McAuliffe is special assistant to the president for contemplatives in action at Georgetown University.

Jane McAuliffe

Jane McAuliffe previously was director of the John W. Kluge Center and inaugural director of national and international outreach at the Library of Congress. She was president of Bryn Mawr College from 2008 to 2013 and is a former dean of Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Thomas Michel

Father Thomas Michel, S.J., is a visiting professor at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome and previously taught theology at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

Anja Middelbeck-Varwick

Dr. Anja Middelbeck-Varwick has taught Theology of Religion and Religious Studies at the Department of Catholic Theology at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany since 2019.

Pavle Mijović

Pavle Mijović is senior assistant and vice dean for science at the Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Sarajevo.

John Milbank

John Milbank is professor emeritus in religion, politics, and ethics in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham, as well as president of its Centre of Theology and Philosophy.

Mustansir Mir

Mustansir Mir is University Professor of Islamic Studies at Youngstown State University.

Mahan Mirza

Mahan Mirza is professor of the practice in the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs, where he is the lead faculty for the Madrasa Discourses Project within in the Contending Modernities program.

Younus Mirza

Younus Y. Mirza is a visiting researcher at the Georgetown University Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the founding director of Global Virtual Learning at Shenandoah University.

Tarek Mitri

Tarek Mitri is director of the American University of Beirut’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and a former Lebanese politician.

Ibrahim Mogra

Ibrahim Mogra is an imam and scholar in Leicester, United Kingdom.

Dheen Mohamed

Dheen Mohamed is a professor in the Muhammad Bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization in Hamad Bin Khalifa University's College of Islamic Studies.

Esther Mombo

Esther Mombo is an associate professor in the theology department at St. Paul's University in Limuru, Kenya.

Ebrahim Moosa

Ebrahim Moosa is professor of Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, with appointments in the Department of History and the Kroc Institute for International Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs.

Lucinda Mosher

Lucinda Allen Mosher is director of the M.A. in Interreligious Studies program at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, senior scholar for its Continuing and Professional Education initiative, and an affiliate of its Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations.

Munjed Murad

Munjed M. Murad is the Johnson-Fry Endowed Chair in World Religions and Intercultural Studies at the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.

Abdal Hakim Murad

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (also known as Timothy Winter) is the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge University and director of studies in theology at Wolfson College Cambridge.

Kenan Musić

Kenan Musić is a member of the faculty of the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Abdul Rahman Mustafa

Abdul Rahman Mustafa is a postdoctoral fellow in comparative theology with the faculty of cultural studies of the University of Paderborn.

Sohail Nakhooda

Sohail Nakhooda is the executive director and head of research and publishing at Kalam Research and Media in Dubai.

Nazirudin Mohd Nasir

Dr. Nazirudin Mohd Nasir is the director of religious and policy development at the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore.

Aref Ali Nayed

Aref Ali Nayed is founder and director of Kalam Research and Media.

Michael Nazir-Ali

Michael Nazir-Ali is president of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue.

Ng Kam Weng

Ng Kam Weng is the research director of the Kairos Research Centre in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

Martin Nguyen

Martin Nguyen is a professor of Islamic studies and chair of the Religious Studies Department at Fairfield University in Connecticut.

Rasoul Naghavi Nia

Rasoul Naghavi Nia is the founding director of the Mufid Academic Seminary in Fairfax, Virginia.

Michael Northcott

Michael Northcott is emeritus professor of ethics in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.

Joan O’Donovan

Joan Lockwood O’Donovan is a theologian and academic with expertise in Christian political and social thought.

Teresa Okure

Teresa Okure, S.H.C.J., is a sister of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and a professor of New Testament and gender hermeneutics at the Catholic Institute of West Africa in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Jacob Onyumbe

Reverend Jacob Onyumbe is a Roman Catholic priest of the diocese of Tshumbe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he is academic dean and associate professor at the Notre Dame University of Tshumbe (Sankuru).

Mehmet Pacaci

Mehmet Paçacı is the Turkish ambassador to the Vatican.

Elizabeth Phillips

Elizabeth Phillips is the Public Engagement Fellow of the Woolf Institute, an interfaith institute in Cambridge, England.

Michael Plekon

Rev. Michael Plekon is professor of sociology/anthropology in the Religion and Culture Program at the City University of New York's Baruch College.

Michael Poon

Michael Nai-Chiu Poon, an Anglican priest, is the Asian Christianity coordinator of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia at Trinity Theological College (Singapore).

Douglas Pratt

Douglas Pratt retired as Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, in 2018.

John Prior

Father John Mansford Prior, SVD, is a lecturer at St. Paul's Institute of Philosophy, Ledalero, Flores Island, Indonesia, having worked in eastern Indonesia since 1973.

Peniel Rajkumar

Rev. Dr. Peniel Jesudason Rufus Rajkumar is the programme executive for interreligious dialogue and cooperation at the World Council of Churches, focused on relations with followers of Eastern religious traditions (primarily Hinduism and Buddhism).

Joshua Ralston

Joshua Ralston is Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh and director and co-founder of the Christian-Muslim Studies Network funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.

Tariq Ramadan

Tariq Ramadan is professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University and also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology.

Samer Rashwani

Samer Rashwani is assistant to the chair of Islamic doctrine at the Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Sajjad Rizvi

Sajjad Rizvi is associate professor of Islamic intellectual history and director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, where he is also involved in the Centre for the Study of Islam.

Geoffrey Rowell

Geoffrey Rowell was bishop of Gibraltar in Europe in the Church of England's Diocese in Europe from 2001 until his 2013 retirement; he passed away in 2017.

Abdullah Saeed

Abdullah Saeed is the Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Mashal Saif

Mashal Saif is an assistant professor of religion at Clemson University.

Feryal Salem

Dr. Feryal Salem is associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies, as well as director of the Master of Divinity in Islamic Studies and Muslim Chaplaincy programs at American Islamic College.

Lamin Sanneh

Lamin Sanneh was the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity and professor of history at Yale University until his death in January 2019.

S. Abdallah Schleifer

Abdallah Schleifer is professor emeritus of journalism at the American University in Cairo, where he was founding director of the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research.

Hansjorg Schmid

Dr. Hansjörg Schmid is director of the Swiss Center for Islam and Society and Professor of Interreligious Ethics at the University of Fribourg.

Christoph Schwöbel

Christoph Schwöbel was professor of systematic theology and director of the Institute of Hermeneutics and Cultural Dialogue at the University of Tübingen until his death in 2021; he assumed the 1643 Chair in Divinity at the University of St. Andrews in September 2018.

Philip Seddon

Philip Seddon is retired after 40 years as an ordained minister in the Church of England.

Recep Senturk

Recep Senturk is president and a professor of sociology at Ibn Haldun University, specializing in civilization and Islamic studies.

Ayman Shabana

Ayman Shabana is an associate research professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

Shirin Shafaie

Shirin Shafaie is a research fellow and a member of the Reading the Bible in the Context of Islam project at the Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies in Oxford.

Reza Shah-Kazemi

Reza Shah-Kazemi is a research associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and was the founding editor of the Islamic World Report.

Zaid Shakir

Imam Zaid Shakir is a faculty member at Zaytuna College in California, teaching Islamic history and politics.

Samer Shehata

Samer Shehata is the Colin Mackey and Patricia Molina de Mackey Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

Philip Sheldrake

Philip Sheldrake is a Senior Research Fellow in the Cambridge Theological Federation (Westcott House) and director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Spirituality at the Oblate School of Theology (Texas).

Ayman Shihadeh

Ayman Shihadeh, an intellectual historian specializing in medieval Arabic and Islamic philosophy and rational theology, is reader in Arabic intellectual history at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Muzammil Siddiqi

Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi is the imam and religious director of the Islamic Society of Orange County, Garden Grove; he also chairs the Fiqh Council of North America and the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California.

Ataullah Siddiqui

Ataullah Siddiqui is a reader in religious pluralism and interfaith relations at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education.

Sohaira Siddiqui

Sohaira Siddiqui is an assistant professor of theology at Georgetown University in Qatar. Her research interests include classical Islamic legal theory (usul ul-fiqh) and political thought, the development and intersection of legal thought and political thought from the ninth to eleventh centuries, and secularism and modernity in relation to Islamic law and Muslims in the West. Siddiqui also…

Martin Lukito Sinaga

Martin Lukito Sinaga is an ordained minister in the Simalungun Protestant Christian Church in Indonesia and also teaches courses on religion, church-society relations, and interfaith dialogue at the Jakarta Theological Seminary.

Ermin Sinanović

Ermin Sinanović is the executive director of the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) at Shenandoah University, where he is also a scholar in residence.

Mun'im Sirry

Mun'im Sirry is an assistant professor of theology and scholar with the Contending Modernities Initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Abdolkarim Soroush is a researcher at the Institute for Cultural Research and Studies in Iran. One of the Muslim world's most influential thinkers for his analysis of the relationship between religious and secular knowledge and authority, Soroush has also been a visiting professor at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. In 2005, Time listed him as one of…

Janet Soskice

Janet Soskice is professor of philosophical theology and a fellow of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge.

Tobias Specker

Dr. Tobias Specker, S.J., currently serves as Superior of the Jesuit community in Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt, Germany, and is an advisor to the sub-commission on “Interreligious Dialogue” of the German Bishops’ Conference.

Christian Strobele

Dr. Christian Ströbele has directed the Interreligious Dialogue Department at the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart since 2015, including the coordination of the Theological Forum Christianity – Islam.

Muna Tatari

Dr. Muna Tatari is Professor of Islamic Systematic Theology and Kalam Studies at the Institute for Islamic Theology of Paderborn University.

Nicholas Townsend

Nicholas Townsend is the book reviews editor for Studies in Christian Ethics at SAGE Publishing and a writer and editor for the VPlater project based at Newman University, Birmingham.

Muhammad Suheyl Umar

Muhammad Suheyl Umar is the director of the Iqbal Academy Pakistan.

Miroslav Volf

Miroslav Volf is founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School.

John Voll

John Voll is professor emeritus of Islamic history at Georgetown University and past associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.

Samuel Wagner

Samuel Wagner is the director of dialogue and Catholic identity in the Office of the President at Georgetown University.

Michael Welker

Michael Welker is the Alonzo L. McDonald Senior Fellow in Law and Religion at the University of Heidelberg, where he is also the chair for systematic theology and the director of the university's Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology.