Nurcholis Madjid
Islamic scholar, rector at the Paramadina University, Jakarta, focuses mainly on analyses of the understanding of democracy and of reform movements within the Islamic regions.Gudrun Krämer
Political scientist and professor for Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin, with teaching positions at the European University of Florence, the International Institute for the Study of Islam (ISIM) in Leiden and the "Pole Proche-Orient Institute" in Paris. Martin van Bruinessen
Anthropologist, rector at the University of Utrecht, member of the ISIM Institute in Leiden, his research focuses primarily on the shifting clichés of social roles in the development of the modern Islamic debate. Kai Hafez
Teaches Communication Studies at the University of Erfurt, previously initiated media research for the region of the Near East at the German Orient Institute in Hamburg. Author of such books as “Islam and the West (“Der Islam und der Westen”, Frankfurt/Main). Abo Elela Mady
Director of the International Center for ((??)) Studies in Cairo, co-founder of the (unrecognised) Islamic reform party “Al-Wassat”, board member of the society for "Culture and Dialogue", writes for Islamic newsletters such as “Al Manar Al-Jadid”.
Abdou Filali Ansary
Director of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations at the Aga Khan University in London since the beginning of 2002, previously worked toward the development of a civil society in Morocco as the Director of the King Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saoud Foundation in Casablanca and as the publisher of the journal "Prologues - revue maghrébine du livre".
Warnfried Dettling
Political scientist, since 1991 freelance writer with a focus on "the development of the welfare state"; from 1983 to 1991 he was the Head of the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women and Health, and was previously director of the policy department of the CDU federal office under General Secretaries Biedenkopf and Geissler.
Ekkehart Krippendorff
Professor of Political Science and North American Politics at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the FU Berlin; upon his retirement in 1999 his ((commitment)) was honoured in a publication entitled “For a Living Science of the Political. Detour as Method".
Antje Vollmer
The Green Member of Parliament is the vice president of the German Bundestag, and has made a name for herself as a peace and human rights activist; she studied theology in Berlin, Heidelberg and Paris.
Abdulkader Tayob
Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the "Center for Contemporary Islam" in Cape Town, South Africa; his book “Islamic Studies between Sciences and Transformation” will be published this year by the Körber Foundation, Hamburg.
Janbernd Oebbecke
Executive Director of the Community Studies Institute at the University of Münster and Professor of Public Law and Management, specialist in legal issues regarding the role of Muslims and Muslim organisations in the secular state.
Gijs von der Fuhr
Press officer of the Commissioner for Foreigners in Amsterdam since 1987 and consultant for various Islamic organisations, trainer for intercultural communication; studied sociology at the University of Amsterdam, translated Mohammed Arkoun into Dutch.
Mohamed Habib Marzouki
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tunis 1.
Ralph Gadban
Islamic scholar. Tariq Ramadan
Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) und in Geneva, has played an active role in the debate on the future of Muslims in Europe for years, German publications include "Muslim sein in Europa" (Being a Muslim in Europe) and "Der Islam und der Westen" (Islam and the West). Arzu Merali
Freelance journalist and research director at the Islamic Human Rights Commission in London; this organisation takes international action to push for the release of people who have been imprisoned because of their convictions, as well as investigating discrimination against Muslims in Great Britain. Haci Karacaer
Secretary of Milli Görus in the Netherlands, member of the board on the Council of Religions and World View in the Netherlands. Sabiha El-Zayat
Lecturer for Islamic Hermeneutics and Didactics at the “Center for Islamic Women’s Studies and Aid” (“Zentrum für islamische Frauenforschung und -förderung”, ZIF); she studied Islamic Studies, Medicine and Ethnology; after her medical state examinations she worked for a time as a doctor, focusing on psychosomatic gynaecology. Olivier Roy
Professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Since 1984 the French Foreign Ministry has repeatedly drawn on his experience as an expert on Afghanistan; the OSZE sent him to Tajikistan as a special emissary, and he has run the OSZE mission there since 1994.
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