Founding editor of the Islamic World Report, Reza Shah-Kazemi studied International Relations and Politics at Sussex and Exeter Universities before obtaining his PhD in Comparative Religion from the University of Kent in 1994. He has authored and...
Simon is a Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is interested in transnational Islam and how the Islamic scholarly tradition is debated and negotiated in modern and contemporary Muslim societies, in...
Dervish Huseyin Abiva holds a degree in history from the University of Maryland, and he is a dervish serving the Bektashi Community of America. Dervish Huseyin has translated a number of important Bektashi works into English, including the Vilayetname of...
Dervish Eliton Pashaj holds a degree in theology from Bursa Uludağ University (Turkey). Originally from Albania, Dervish Eliton is currently the senior clergyman at the First Albanian-American Bektashi Teqe, which he has served for over ten years.
Dr. Payam Mohseni is the Director of the Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and manages Visions, Harvard's premier online publication on all matters pertaining to global Shi'ism. He...
Rose Wellman is an anthropologist who specializes in Iran, the Middle East, and its diaspora. Between 2007 and 2010, she conducted ethnographic research in Iran. The result is her forthcoming book, Feeding Iran: Shi’i Families and the Making of an...
Alexander Weissenburger is a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Science's Institute for Social Anthropology, where he writes his PhD thesis on the ideology of the Huthi movement in Yemen. He holds an MLitt in Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asian...
Rameez Abbas is Associate Professor at the National Defense University, where she teaches courses on South Asian politics, statecraft, and the Muslim world. She has also been Lecturer and Program Coordinator at the MA in Global Security Studies at Johns...
Juan R. I. Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For four decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is The Rubaiyat of...
Hassan Abbas is Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the Near East South Asia Strategic Studies Centre (NESA), National Defense University in Washington DC.
He serves as a senior advisor at the Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs at...
