Contributors

Abdullah Saeed is the Foundation Professor of the Sultan of Oman Endowed Chair in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is Director of the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and Director of the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies (in conjunction with Griffith University and the University of Western Sydney). His recent publications include Islamic Thought: an introduction, Routledge, 2006; Interpreting the Qur’an: Towards a Contemporary Approach, Routledge, 2006; as editor Approaches to the Qur’an in Contemporary Indonesia (Oxford University Press, 2005); as co-author Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam (Ashgate, 2004); Islam in Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2003).

Bassam Tibi , a native of Damascus and a German citizen, is professor for International Relations at the University of Goettingen, and honorary A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He has held visiting positions at 17 Universities, including Harvard, Princeton, UC Berkeley, Michigan, National University of Singapore and Hidayatullah Islamic State University of Jakarta. He is author of 24 books in German and 6 in English, the most recent of which are The Challenge of Fundamentalism (1998, updated 2002), Islam between Culture and Politics (jointly published with Harvard 2001, updated 2005), and Islam, World Politics and Europe (forthcoming with Routledge 2007).

Bryan S. Turner was professor of sociology at the University of Cambridge (1998-2005) and is currently professor and research leader on globalisation and religion in the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. His many books include Weber and Islam (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974), Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism (Routledge, 1994), and more recently Classical Sociology (Sage Publications, 1999), The New Medical Sociology (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004), and with Chris Rojek, Society & Culture: Principles of Scarcity and Solidarity (Sage Publications, 2001).

Azmi Özcan is Professor of History at the University of Sakarya, Turkey. He has published extensively on late Ottoman history and Indian Muslim history including Pan-Islamism, Indian Muslims, The Ottomans and Britain 1877-1924 (Brill, 1997).

Barbara Metcalf is the Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History at the University of Michigan. A specialist in the history of South Asian Muslims, she is the co-author of A Concise History of India (Cambridge, 2002)

Imran Ali is a Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, and has also been associated with universities in Australia, the UK and USA. He has published widely on Pakistan, including The Punjab under Imperialism: 1885-1947 (Princeton, 1988).

Nico J.G. Kaptein is a lecturer in Islamic Studies at Leiden University. His publications include Transcending borders: Arabs, politics, trade and Islam in Southeast Asia, (KITLV Press, 2002, co-edited with Huub de Jonge).

R. Michael Feener is Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. His publications include: Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives (ABC-Clio, 2004).

Greg Fealy holds a joint appointment as Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Politics in the Faculty of Asian Studies and the Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Joseph Chinyong Liow is Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.