Editor-in-Chief AbdulHamid AbuSulayman	Editor Katherine Bullock
Managing Editor Halil Yenigun   Copy Editors Jay Willoughby / Soha Srour   Book Review Editor Mahdi Tourage   Assistant Editors
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad Mehmet Asutay	Marcia Hermansen Haifaa Jawad
Ahmad F. Yousif
International Advisory Board
Ibrahim Abu-Rabi Khurshid Ahmad Akbar Ahmed Manzoor Alam Taha J. al-Alwani Zafar Ishaq Ansari Khaled Blankinship Charles Butterworth Louis J. Cantori Ahmad Davutoglu Abdulwahab M. Elmessiri John L. Esposito Mehdi Golshani	M. Kamal Hassan Aziza Y. al-Hibri Mohammad H. Kamali Enes Karic Clovis Maksoud Ali A. Mazrui Seyyed Hossein Nasr Ibrahim Ahmed Omer James P. Piscatori Anne Sofie Roald Tamara Sonn Antony Sullivan Sayyid M. Syeed
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