Editorial Team

Founding Editor

Muzaffar Iqbal

President, Center for Islamic Sciences, Canada

Muzaffar Iqbal is a scholar of Islamic intellectual traditions whose work examines the Muslim encounter with modernity, with particular attention to Islam and modern science, Qurʾānic studies, and the intellectual and spiritual heritage of Islam. He is President of the Center for Islamic Sciences and General Editor of the Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān, a multi-volume reference work grounded in the classical Muslim scholarly tradition.

His academic work has also included research and teaching appointments at the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and McGill University, as well as institutional roles with COMSTECH and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He has written and edited extensively on Islam, science, the Qurʾān, and Muslim responses to modern intellectual thought.

Editor

Muhammad Ahmad Munir

Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Canada

Muhammad Ahmad Munir teaches Arabic at McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies, where he also completed his PhD in Islamic Studies. His teaching and research span Islamic law, Qurʾānic studies, Arabic language, comparative legal thought, and the intellectual history of South Asia. He previously served on the Faculty of Shariah and Law at the International Islamic University, Islamabad.

He is also Editor of Islamic Studies and Associate Editor of the Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān. His scholarship combines training in Islamic legal traditions with sustained work in Arabic texts, translation, and contemporary questions concerning law and Muslim societies.

 

Editorial Board

Mustafa Abu Sway

Professor of Philosophy and Islamic Studies, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem

Mustafa Abu Sway is Professor of Philosophy and Islamic Studies at Al-Quds University. His scholarship focuses particularly on Imam al-Ghazālī, Islamic philosophy, ethics, spirituality, and contemporary applications of Islamic thought. He was the first holder of the Integral Chair for the Study of Imam al-Ghazālī’s Work at Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Quds University and has taught in Palestine, Malaysia, and the United States.

His publications include studies of al-Ghazālī’s epistemology and intellectual legacy, alongside work on Jerusalem, religious ethics, and the relationship between Islamic teachings and contemporary social and environmental questions.

Ahmad S. Dallal

President, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Ahmad S. Dallal is President of The American University in Cairo and a scholar of Islamic intellectual history. His research examines the history of science in Muslim societies, Islamic thought and law, early modern intellectual movements, and the development of scientific and religious knowledge within Islamic civilization.

Before joining AUC, he served as Dean of Georgetown University in Qatar and Provost of the American University of Beirut, in addition to teaching at institutions including Stanford, Yale, Smith College, Georgetown, and AUB. His books include Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History and studies of modern Islamic political and intellectual movements.

 

Mehdi Golshani

Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Mehdi Golshani is a theoretical physicist and philosopher of science whose scholarship explores the philosophical foundations of modern science and the relationship between scientific knowledge, metaphysics, and religion. Trained in physics at the University of Tehran and the University of California, Berkeley, he has been closely associated with Sharif University of Technology, where he contributed to the development of philosophy of science as an academic field in Iran.

His writings examine quantum theory, scientific explanation, religious conceptions of nature, and the possibility of situating scientific inquiry within a broader metaphysical and Islamic intellectual framework.

 

Syed Nomanul Haq

Scholar of Islamic Intellectual History and Philosophy

Syed Nomanul Haq is a scholar of Islamic intellectual history whose work crosses the history of science, philosophy, classical Arabic literature, Islamic thought, and Urdu literary culture. His research has contributed particularly to the study of scientific and philosophical traditions in classical Islam and to contemporary reconsiderations of the intellectual history of Muslim civilization.

He has taught and conducted research at institutions in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including the University of Pennsylvania, LUMS, and Habib University, and has contributed to major scholarly publications on Islamic philosophy and intellectual history.

 

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

University Professor Emeritus, The George Washington University, United States

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies at The George Washington University and a leading scholar of Islamic philosophy, Sufism, comparative religion, and the history and philosophy of science. His work has been particularly influential in discussions of Islamic intellectual tradition, sacred knowledge, environmental philosophy, and the encounter between traditional religious worldviews and modernity.

Educated at MIT and Harvard University, Nasr has authored more than fifty books and a substantial body of scholarship on Islamic philosophy, science, spirituality, art, and comparative thought. His major works include Knowledge and the Sacred, Religion and the Order of Nature, and Science and Civilization in Islam.

 

Hamid Parsania

Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Iran

Hamid Parsania is Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tehran. His scholarship brings Islamic philosophy into sustained conversation with sociology and contemporary social theory, with particular attention to epistemology, culture, social knowledge, and the philosophical foundations of the human sciences.

Drawing substantially on the Islamic philosophical tradition, including the transcendent philosophy of Mullā Ṣadrā, his work explores how classical metaphysical and epistemological frameworks may contribute to the study of society and the development of Islamic approaches to the social sciences.

 

Roshdi Rashed

Emeritus Director of Research, CNRS, France

Roshdi Rashed is a mathematician, philosopher, and historian of science whose research has transformed modern understanding of mathematics and the exact sciences in medieval Islamic civilization. His work combines the critical study of Arabic scientific manuscripts with the history and philosophy of mathematics, optics, mechanics, and scientific transmission.

Formerly Director of the Centre for the History of Arab and Medieval Sciences and Philosophies in Paris, he has produced an extensive body of critical editions and historical studies demonstrating the originality and development of scientific traditions in the medieval Islamic world.

 

Muhammad Suheyl Umar

Scholar of Iqbal, Sufism, and Islamic Intellectual Traditions

Muhammad Suheyl Umar is a Pakistani scholar of Islamic intellectual and spiritual traditions, with particular expertise in Muhammad Iqbal, Sufism, metaphysics, and comparative philosophy. He served for many years as Director of the Iqbal Academy Pakistan and has played an important role in the publication, interpretation, and international dissemination of Iqbal studies.

His writings explore Iqbal in conversation with the classical Islamic philosophical and Sufi traditions, particularly the thought of Ibn ʿArabī and Mullā Ṣadrā, as well as wider questions concerning traditional metaphysics, literature, and Muslim intellectual culture.