Editorial Team

Patron-in-Chief

Masoom Yasinzai, Rector, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Patron

Ahmed Yousif Ahmed Al Draiweesh, President, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Editor

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Director General, Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Deputy Editor

Muhammad Ahmad Munir, Department of Fiqh & Law, IRI, IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan

Assistant Editors

Muhammad Islam, Lecturer, IRI, IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan

Brian Wright, Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic World Studies, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Advisory Board

Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Director, Professor K. A. Nizami Centre for Quranic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

Abdul Azim Islahi, Professor of Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Jedda, Saudi Arabia

Abdul Hakim Al-Matroudi, Visiting Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, Professor of Political Science, School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Anis Ahmad, Vice Chancellor, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Asad Zaman, Former Vice Chancellor, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan

Barbara D. Metcalf, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

Bilal Ahmad Qureshi, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Usuluddin, IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan

Carl W. Ernst, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Zaleha bt Kamaruddin, Professor, International Institute for Islamic Thought and Civilization, International Islamic University, Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia

Eatzaz Ahmad, Professor, School of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Ebrahim Moosa, Professor, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Farhan A. Nizami, Director, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, UK

Fauzan Saleh, State Institute for Islamic Studies, Kediri, East Java, Indonesia

Fikret Karcic, Professor, Faculty of Law & Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Francis Robinson, Professor, Department of History, University of London, Surrey, UK

Fuad Shahid Naeem, Assistant Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, USA

Husnul Amin, Executive Director, Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue, IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan

Ibrahim Kalin, Deputy Secretary-General, Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey

Ijaz Shafi Gilani, Chairman, Gallup Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan

Jamal Malik, Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Chair for Religious Studies and Muslim Religious & Cultural History, University of Erfurt, Germany

James P. Buchanan, University Professor & Executive Director, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, USA

John L. Esposito, Professor of Religion, International Affairs, and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA

Jonathan A. C. Brown, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Al Waleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA

Mahdi Zahraa, Reader of Law, Department of Law, Economics, Accountancy, and Risk, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK (Scotland)

Marcia Hermansen, Director of the Islamic World Studies Program and Professor of Theology Department, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, USA

Mehdi Golshani, Professor of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Founding CEO, International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Muhammad Akram, Department of Comparative Religion, IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Khalid Masud, Justice, Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Modassir Ali, Senior Researcher, College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

Muhammad Munir, Vice President, IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Professor, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Muhammed Haron, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana

Muzaffar Iqbal, Founder/President, Center for Islam and Science, Sherwood Park, Canada

Patrice Brodeur, Director Research, KAICIID, Vienna, Austria

Recep Senturk, President, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey

Safir Akhtar, Former Chief Editor, IRI, IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan

Saleha S. Mahmood, Director, Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Sebastian Gunther, Professor and Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Gottingen, Germany

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Professor, George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA

SherAli Tareen, Associate Professor, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA

Syed Rizwan Zamir, Associate Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, Davidson College, NC, USA

Timothy J. Winter, Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK

Tamara Sonn, Professor of Humanities, Department of Religion, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA

Tanvir Anjum, Professor, Department of History, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Tarif Khalidi, Shaikh Zayed Chair in Islamic and Arabic Studies, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Wael Hallaq, Professor of Islamic Law and Islamic Intellectual History, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University, New York, USA

William C. Chittick, Professor of Religious Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA

Zia-ul-Qayyum, Vice Chancellor, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan