Saif El-Din 'Abdel Fattah teaches Islamic political theory and political thought at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at the University of Cairo. At the same university he is the executive head of the Program for Civilization Studies and Dialogue of Cultures (http://www.hewaronline.net/).

Geneive Abdo, most recently the religion writer at the Chicago Tribune, is a regular contributor to The Economist and the International Herald Tribune. She is currently Liaison of the Alliance of Civilizations at the United Nations. She has published Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11 and No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000).

توفيق اكليمندس باحث مصريّ متعاقد في كرسيّ تاريخ العالم العربيّ المعاصر في الكوليج دو فرانس منذ عام 2009. عمل كباحث في المركز الفرنسي للدراسات والوثائق الاقتصاديّة والقانونيّة والاجتماعيّة (CEDEJ، القاهرة) بين عامي 1984 و2009. كاتب متخصّص في الحياة السياسيّة المصريّة لما بعد الحرب العالميّة الثانية (1945-2011)، قام بنشر مقالات عديدة حول الجيش وحول الإخوان المسلمين وعن سياسة مبارك الخارجيّة.

Prof. Khalid al-Jabr (Qalqilya, Occupied Territories, 1964, married with four children), after obtaining a BA at the University of Nablus, a MA and a PhD in Arabic Language and Literature at the Jordanian University, is now Associate Professor at the Petra University (Amman). He is the author of several monographs on modern Arabic literature (chiefly Mahmûd Darwîsh and contemporary poetry) and of critical editions of classical texts (ar-Râzî, at-Tijânî, Ibn al-Khatîb etc.). His researches deal also with semantics of texts and he is currently writing an essay entitled Towards a contemporary understanding of the Kur’ân: essay on Sûrat al-a’là. He is the author of three collections of poems.

Mohammed Abed al Jabri was born in Figuig (Morocco) and is one of the most famous Arab philosophers. After studying in Damascus and Rabat, he specialised in Arab-Islamic thought. Amongst his most famous publications we may list Critique de la Raison Arabe, 4 volumes (1982-1990). Presentations of this work have been published in French (Introduction à la Critique de la Raison Arabe, La Découverte, Paris, 1995) and in English (Arab-Islamic Philosophy. A Contemporary Critique, Texas University, 1999). He died in Casablanca on 3 May 2010.

Scott Alexander is Associate Professor of Islam and Director, Catholic-Muslim Studies at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. Trained at Harvard University, he held M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include medieval Muslim sectarianism, the mystical traditions of Muslim spirituality, Quranic studies, and the history and future of Muslim-Christian relations and interreligious dialogue. His current book project is entitled The Race to Goodness: an End to Triumphalism in Christianity and Islam.
 

لويدجي أليتشي
ولد في غروتّاتزولينا (منطقة أسكولي بيتشينو الإيطالية) عام ١٩٥٠، متأهّل وله ابنان. يعلّم الفلسفة في جامعة لومسا في روما. من بين نشاطاته الأخرى نذكر معاونته مركز الدراسات الأغسطينية بمدينة بيرودجا في تنظيم حلقات دراسية دولية، وإدارته لسلسلة دوافع الخير التي تصدرها دار نشر سان باولو وكذلك إدارته لمجلة حوارات الفصلية (روما). يرأس منذ نهاية أيار/مايو ٢٠٠٥ منظمة العمل الكاثوليكي (أتسيوني كاتّوليكا) الإيطالية.

محمّد أمير معزّي
وُلد في إيران سنه 1958، أستاذ في l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (la Sorbonne)
وهو مؤلف لعديد من الكتب و المقالات من بينها على الأخص
La religion discrète: croyances et pratiques spirituelles dans l’islam shi’ite (Vrin, 2006);
Le Guide divin dans le shi’isme originel (Verdier, 2007)

كان مديرا و مؤلفا مشاركا في
Dictionnaire du Coran, Robert Laffont, 2007
و أخيرا هو مدير علمي مشارك لسلسلة Islamica.

بدار النشر الإيطالية Mondadori.

 

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im was born in the Sudan, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at the Emory Law School (USA). A scholar of international standing on Islam and human rights from an inter-cultural perspective, he holds courses on international law, comparative constitutional law and human rights, and religion and human rights. His research interests include secularity, constitutionalism and citizenship in Islamic societies, and constitutionalism in African countries.

Carl A. Anderson is Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus. He graduated in philosophy and law and is a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Commission on Civil Rights of the United States of America.