Olivier Roy

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1. Olivier Roy

   Author of Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah, The Failure of Political Islam, Secularism Confronts Islam

2. Gilles Kepel

   Author of Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West, The Roots of Radical Islam

3. Tariq Ramadan

   Author of In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, To Be a European Muslim

4. Fazlur Rahman

   Author of Major Themes of the Quran, Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies), Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism

5. 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)

6. John L. Esposito

   Author of Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think

7. Khaled Abou El Fadl

   Author of Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women, Islam and the Challenge of Democracy: A "Boston Review" Book (Boston Review Book)

8. Vali Nasr

   Author of The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, Vol 1, Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism

9. Martha Brill Olcott

   Author of Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise, Central Asia's Second Chance, The Kazakhs (Studies of Nationalities)

10. Faisal Devji

    Author of Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity

11. Muhammad Qasim Zaman

    Author of The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change

12. Peter Mandaville

    Author of Global Political Islam

13. Annemarie Schimmel

    Author of Islam: An Introduction, And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety (Studies in Religion)

14. Dale F. Eickelman

    Author of Muslim Politics, Knowledge and Power in Morocco

15. Ahmed Rashid

    Author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia, The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism? (Politics in Contemporary Asia)

16. Gabriel A. Almond

    Author of Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms around the World (The Fundamentalism Project)

17. Antonio Giustozzi

    Author of Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (Columbia/Hurst)

18. Sayyid Qutb

    Author of Milestones, Social Justice in Islam

19. Fawaz A. Gerges

    Author of The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global (Cambridge Middle East Studies)

20. Svat Soucek

    Author of A History of Inner Asia