Professor Khoja-Moolji's research delves into the intricate intersections of gender, race, religion, and power in global contexts, with a particular focus on Muslim communities in South Asia and the North American diaspora. Her body of work includes acclaimed books and articles. Her book, "Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan," delves into the cultural and affective dimensions of sovereignty. It offers a close analysis of cultural texts from the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, presenting sovereignty as an evolving attachment negotiated in public culture. The book earned the 2022 Best Book Award from the International Studies Association's Theory Section, among other recognitions.

Professor Khoja-Moolji's latest work, "Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality" (Oxford University Press, 2023), explores the transnational journeys of Ismaili Muslim women from colonial India to East Africa and North America. It uncovers their everyday practices in forging joy, community, and ethical subjectivities.

With an academic background spanning Brown University, Harvard University, and Columbia University, Professor Khoja-Moolji's research enriches our understanding of complex issues in today's globalized world. She also held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.

Oludamini is a renowned scholar bridging philosophy, art and spirituality in West and North Africa. His books including “Deep Knowledge” and “Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection” have earned accolades, with the former one winning the ASWAD Outstanding First Book Prize. He has also explored the intellectual history and literary aspects of Islamic and indigenous traditions, notably sufism and IFA.

Currently Oludamini is leading a collaborative project on Sufi poetry’s role in acquiring knowledge. He is working on manuscripts about Yoruba mythology, pre-colonial West African Islamic philosophy and African Islamic decolonial thought.

Muhammad U. Faruque is the author of a highly acclaimed book ‘Sculpting the Self’ that addresses “what it means to be human” in a secular post-enlightenment world by exploring notions of selfhood and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical literatures, including modern philosophy and neuroscience. Faruque is the author of three books and over forty-five academic articles, which have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as Philosophy East and West, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy (Cambridge), Brill Journal of Sufi Studies, Religious Studies (Cambridge), Brill Journal of Islamic Ethics, and Ancient Philosophy. He has delivered lectures in many North American, European, Asian, and Middle Eastern universities. He gives public lectures on a wide of range of topics such as climate change, spirituality, meditation, AI, Islamic psychology, and Islam and the West.

Professor Rizvi is an intellectual historian interested in the course of philosophy in the Islamic world both past and present. He is serving as the director of the Centre for the Study of Islam at the University of Exeter where he supervises graduate students in Islamic intellectual history, especially philosophy, theology and Quranic exegesis. Professor Rizvi is currently working on three projects; intellectual history of philosophical traditions in Iran and North India in the 18th century, diachronic study of the philosophy of time in Islamic thought, and the reception of some European philosophies in the postcolonial Muslim context.

Eldridge is an anthropologist studying the tensions of contemporary revolutionary and religious practices in the Middle East with interests in critical theory, psychoanalysis, materialism, and analytic philosophy. His book manuscript A Desert Place: Arab Orthodox Monasticism in Postwar Lebanon coordinates the flourishing of monasticism with the immsertation of life in contemporary Lebanon. His new research project studies Muslim and Eastern Christian land endowments and their entanglement with ecologies and theologies of the unseen. He is also a translator, and is currently completing an annotated translation of Confession and Psychoanalysis by Aspiro Jabbur, a text that draws out resonances between Eastern Christian monasticism, psychoanalysis, and Islamic grammars germane to Sufism.

Arsalan Khan is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he joined in 2023. Prior to this he taught at Union College in Schenectady, NY. His research is situated at the intersection of Islam, ritual, gender, and ethics, themes that he explores in the context of Pakistan and the broader South Asia region. His forthcoming book manuscript The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan (Cornell University Press 2024) examines how Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement the Tablighi Jamaat, aspire to create a transcendental Islamic community through a distinct form of face-to-face preaching (dawat). Dr. Khan’s research explores the interpersonal forms of ethics that define the movement and examines how this ethics is materialized in ritual and in the everyday life of the congregation. He shows that a distinct hierarchical conception of pious relationality created in congregational life becomes the ground upon which Tablighis transform domestic and public life in Pakistan. The Tablighi vision of Islamic moral order challenges both liberal secular as well as Islamist conceptions of sovereignty and opens a space to think afresh about the relationship between Islam, secularism, and modernity. Dr. Khan’s work has been published in variety of journals including Anthropological Quarterly, Cultural Anthropology, History and Anthropology, Social Analysis, Asian Affairs, and the Immanent Frame.

Ahab Bdaiwi completed his academic journey at the Universities of London and Exeter, earning his PhD in Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History from the University of Exeter in 2015. Following that, he served as a lecturer specializing in Islamic and Iranian intellectual history at the University of St Andrews for three years, from 2013 to 2016. In January 2016, he held the position of Visiting Scholar of Medieval Studies at the College of William and Mary.

Since August 2016, Bdaiwi has been working as an Assistant Professor of Islamic Thought and History at Leiden University. In recognition of his scholarly contributions, he was awarded the Cook Crone Fellowship in Ancient and Medieval History for the academic year 2020-2021, during which he spent a year at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

Bdaiwi is not only a dedicated scholar but also an active academic leader. He established the Leiden University Shiʿi Studies Initiative (LUSSI) and the Leiden University Centre for Islamic Thought and History (LUITH). Additionally, he played a key role in co-founding the Leiden University Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies (LAMS). As part of his commitment to academic discourse, he serves as the Editor in Chief of the Leiden University Arabic Humanities Blog and is a member of the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS). Furthermore, he holds the title of Senior Member in The Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS).

Seema Golestaneh, an assistant professor in Cornell University's Department of Near Eastern Studies, specializes in the intersection of anthropology and religious studies, with a focus on contemporary Islamic thought within the Persian-speaking world. Her research centers on how metaphysical experiences manifest in the social and material domains through aesthetics and epistemology.

Her upcoming book, "Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran," investigates the lived experiences of gnosis (ma’arifat) among diverse Sufi communities in Iran. Her work, akin to an anthropology of the imagination, relies on textual ethnography and analysis, highlighting the significance of hermeneutics in the Iranian socio-theological context.

Currently, she is engaged in a project titled "Utopia Lost? Afghan Theories of Radical Poetics and Islamic Governance." This research, drawing extensively from archival materials and oral histories, explores the unrealized governmental visions and ambitions of Afghan intellectuals in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Alexander Key is a scholar of Classical Arabic literature with a deep interest in the rich intellectual history of the Arabic and Persian-speaking cultures beginning in the seventh century.

He has explored Classical Arabic theories about poetry and philosophy in in his recent publication, Language Between God and the Poets, delving into how language produces affect and reflects the world. His current work involves working on an under-contract edition and translation of al-Jurjani's Dala'il al-I'jaz for the Library of Arabic Literature.

In 2018, Key guest-edited the Journal of Abbasid Studies, with a special issue on the literary critic ʿAbd al-Qahir al-Jurjani that included an article on al-Jurjani's bilingual theory of translation from Persian into Arabic. He also curates an Arcade Colloquy "Comparing Literatures: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, Urdu" that came out of the 2018 Trans;form symposium. In addition to this he has authored a number of articles on aspects of Classical Arabic literature and culture.

Professor Nauman Naqvi has had a diverse career experience, both inside and outside the academy. After earning a bachelor’s in philosophy from Reed College, he joined as an Assistant Editor at Newsline, Karachi, and later as a Producer at the BBC World Service in London. During this time, he also collaborated actively with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad.

In 1998, he returned to academia, earning a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, specializing in the history of modern Urdu literary-critical culture, with a focus on the ghazal in Indo-Muslim nationalism. While still a graduate student, he was selected to teach Columbia University’s core curriculum flagship course on the history of Western moral and political thought. After receiving his Ph.D. in anthropology, he taught as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Comparative Literature and the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University and the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts at Connecticut College.

Dr Naqvi's work spans anthropology, history, literature, and philosophy, aiming to unearth universals within premodern and vernacular knowledge, often obscured by colonialism and modernity. He believes true universalism depends on recognizing inheritance and sees poststructuralism and postcoloniality as having untapped potential in this regard.

At Habib University, he's dedicated to shaping a core curriculum that integrates regional and Western humanities and social thought, fostering critical universalism. He's also involved in developing curricula for programs within the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, geared toward local and regional contexts to meet the future's emerging demands.