Richard W. Bulliet

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1. Khaled Abou El Fadl

   Author of The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists, The Place of Tolerance in Islam, Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women

2. Marshall G. S. Hodgson

   Author of The Classical Age of Islam, The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods, The Venture of Islam, Volume 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times (Venture of Islam Vol. 3)

3. Richard W. Bulliet

   Author of The Earth and Its People: A Global History, Volume 2: Since 1500 (2nd edition), The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization, Islam: The View from the Edge

4. Annemarie Schimmel

   Author of Mystical Dimensions of Islam, And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety (Studies in Religion), My Soul Is a Woman: The Feminine in Islam

5. Omid Safi

   Author of Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism, The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks)

6. Carl W. Ernst

   Author of The Shambhala Guide to Sufism, Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks)

7. Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali

   Author of Deliverance from Error: Five Key Texts Including His Spiritual Autobiography, al-Munqidh min al-Dalal, The Niche of Lights (Islamic Translation Series)

8. Ziba Mir-Hosseini

   Author of Islam and Gender

9. Suha Taji-Farouki

   Author of Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an (Qur'anic Studies Series)

10. Ingrid Mattson

    Author of The Story of the Qur'an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life

11. Alfred J. Andrea

    Author of The Human Record: Sources of Global History, Vol. 1: To 1700, The Human Record: Sources of Global History, Vol. 2: Since 1500

12. Michael Cook

    Author of Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought

13. Jonathan Brown

    Author of Hadith: An Introduction (Foundations of Islam)

14. Barbara Freyer Stowasser

    Author of Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation

15. Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina

    Author of The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism

16. Albert Hourani

    Author of A History of the Arab Peoples, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939

17. Muhammad Qasim Zaman

    Author of The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change

18. Fernand Braudel

    Author of The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2, The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 2

19. Roy Mottahedeh

    Author of The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran

20. Amina Wadud

    Author of Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam