Moojan Momen

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1. 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)

2. Fazlur Rahman

   Author of Islam, Major Themes of the Quran

3. Roy Mottahedeh

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

4. Wilferd Madelung

   Author of The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate

5. Mohammad Hashim Kamali

   Author of Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence

6. Richard W. Bulliet

   Author of Islam: The View from the Edge

7. Patricia Crone

   Author of God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications)

8. Walter E. Kaegi

   Author of Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests

9. Wael B. Hallaq

   Author of A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh

10. Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina

    Author of The Just Ruler in Shi'ite Islam: The Comprehensive Authority of the Jurist in Imamite Jurisprudence

11. Hugh Kennedy

    Author of The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century (2nd Edition) (History

12. R. Stephen Humphreys

    Author of Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry

13. William Montgomery Watt

    Author of Muhammad at Mecca

14. Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi

    Author of Hadith Literature: Its Origin, Development & Special Features (Islamic Texts Society)

15. Ira M. Lapidus

    Author of A History of Islamic Societies

16. Yahya ibn Sharaf al- Nawawi

    Author of Al-Maqasid: Nawawi's Manual of Islam

17. Ruhollah Khomeini

    Author of Islam and Revolution 1: Writings and Declaration of Imam Khomeini

18. Yitzhak Nakash

    Author of The Shi'is of Iraq

19. Majid Fakhry

    Author of A History of Islamic Philosophy

20. Said Amir Arjomand

    Author of The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran (Studies in Middle Eastern History)