Voices of Islam (279 page)

SCOTT SIRAJUL HAQQ KUGLE is an independent scholar of religious studies and Islamic culture. He received a PhD from Duke University for a comparative study of reformist Sufi in North Africa and South Asia. He has taught at Swarthmore College and was a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World in the

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Netherlands. He has published
The Book of Illumination
(2005) and
Rebel Between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood, and Authority in Islam
(2006).

AMINAH BEVERLY M
C
CLOUD is Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University and Director of the Islamic World Studies Program. She is the author of
African American Islam, Questions of Faith, Transnational Muslims in American Society,
and
American Muslim Women.
She is currently working on
The Nation of Islam: A Closer Look
and is the author of over 20 articles on topics ranging from Islamic law to Muslim women. Also, she is a Fulbright Scholar, consultant on Muslim affairs for the courts, and current editor of the
Journal of Islamic Law and Culture.
She is the founder of the Islam in America Conference at DePaul University, which houses the ‘‘Islam in America Archives.’’ Since January 2005, she has run the only undergraduate baccalaureate Islamic World Studies program. She is a board member of CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) Chicago, ‘‘the Healing Project’’ at Boston University Hospital, Radio Islam, the Institute for Social and Policy Under- standing, the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project (Brandeis University), and she works as an educator for the Middle East Policy Council on understanding Islam and Arabic cultures. She has received grants for her work from the Ford Foundation, the Illinois Humanities Council, the Graham Architectural Foundation, and the Lilly Foundation. Dr. McCloud has also worked on a number of television projects on Muslims and is currently working on task forces for the East West Institute and Chicago Council on Foreign Relations relating to Islam and Muslims.

ZIBA MIR-HOSSEINI is a consultant, researcher, and writer on Middle Eastern issues, specializing in gender, family relations, and Islamic law and development, based in the London Middle East Institute. Her books include
Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law in Iran and Morocco
(1993; repr., 2000),
Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran
(Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999), and (with Richard Tapper)
Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform
(2006). She has also directed (with Kim Longinotto) two award-winning feature-length documentary fi ms on contemporary issues in Iran:
Divorce Iranian Style
(1998) and
Runaway
(2001).

EBRAHIM MOOSA is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University and Associate Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC). He is the author of
Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination
and has numerous publications on Islamic law, ethics, theology, and historical studies. He is also the recipient of the 2005 Carnegie Scholar’s Award.