General Editor
Muzaffar Iqbal

Associate Editors
Muhammad al-Ghazali
Gibril Fouad Haddad
Zacharia al-Khatib

Assistant Editors
Basit Kareem Iqbal
Abd al-Hafidh Wentzel

Language Editor
Muhammad Isa Waley

Biographical Notes (Editors):

Muzaffar Iqbal is the founder-president of Center for Islam and Science (www.cis-ca.org), Canada, and editor of Islam & Science, a semi-annual journal of Islamic perspectives on science and civilization. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry (University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1983), but since 1984 he has been studying Islamic sciences. Most of his published work is related to Islam and Islamic intellectual tradition. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, he has lived in Canada since 1979. He has held academic and research positions at University of Saskatchewan (1979-84), University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984-85), and McGill University (1986). During 1990-99, he lived and worked in Pakistan, first as Director (Scientific Information) for the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation and later as Director (International Cooperation), Pakistan Academy of Sciences.
He has published papers and chapters in edited volumes on various aspects of Islam, the history of Islamic science, the relationship between Islam and science, and Islam and the West. His publications include a Islam and Science (Ashgate, 2002), God, Life and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives (co-ed., Ashgate, 2002). Science and Islam (Greenwood Press, 2007), Islam, Science, Muslims, and Technology: Seyyed Hossein Nasr in Conversation with Muzaffar Iqbal (Al-Qalam Publishing and Islamic Book Trust, 2007), and Dawn in Madinah: A Pilgrim’s Passage (Islamic Book Trust, 2007). He is the co-translator of Volume VII of Tafhim al-Qur’ān (Islamic Foundation, 2001). He has recently finished a detailed study of the Western approaches to the Noble Qur’ān. He is also the General Editor of Ashgate’s new series on Islam and science,Islam and Science: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives.

Muhammad al-Ghazali is Professor and Head of Islamic Social Sciences Unit, Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University. He obtained his doctorate from Islamia University, Bahawalpur. He is Fazil-i-Arabi (Hons.) (Honours degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies), Fazil-i-Dars-i-Nizami(the degree of graduation from a traditional religious seminary awarded after the completion of an eight year program in Arabic language, Grammar and Rhetoric, Islamic Law and Jurisprudence, Qur’ānic Exegesis, Hadith, Theology, and Scholastics. He has a fifth degree certificate in French Language and civilization from the Centre d’Alliance Francaise, Islamabad. He is a Hafiz of the Qur’ān.
He is the editor of Al-Dirasat al-Islamiyyah, a quarterly and refereed research journal of Islamic Research Institute published since 1965 in Arabic. He has supervised a number of postgraduate research works completed by the students of the Faculty of Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul al-Din), International Islamic University, Islamabad. He has published numerous papers in academic journals and has written encyclopedic articles. He is also the author of The Socio-Political Thought of Shah Wali Allah.

Gibril Fouad Haddad embraced Islam in 1991 in New York before completing a Ph.D. in French literature at Columbia. He taught at State University of New York at Stony Brook for two years and in 1997 moved to Damascus, where he studied the Islamic disciplines for nine years. He has published over 30 books on Islamic doctrine, Hadith and history, most recently Qadi Ibn Jahbal’s Refutation of Ibn Taymiyya on Attributing a Direction to Allah Most High (AQSA Publications, Birmingham), The Four Imams and Their Schools (Muslim Academic Trust, London) and al-Suyuti’s Remembrance of God (Amal Press, Bristol). He is presently working on Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari’s Major Dictionary of Hadith Forgeries. He has been graced with ijaza certificates from more than one hundred shaykhs from Algeria to Yemen.

Zacharia al-Khatib Zacharia al-Khatib is currently studying Islamic sciences in Damascus.

Basit Kareem Iqbal A graduate of the University of Alberta’s interdisciplinary studies program in social-critical theory, Basit Kareem Iqbal’s research interests lie in the historical cross-pollination of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, as well as their various reconfigurations in modernity and in relation to the secular. He is Assistant Editor at Al-Qalam Publishing.

Abd al-Hafidh WentzelAbd al-Hafidh Wentzel was born October 22nd 1955 in Kassel, Germany, and grew up in the city of Duesseldorf. After finishing highschool he worked with the Office for Youth Work of the Protestant Church until the end of 1977. His work with a German publishing house enabled him to travel across the world, including trips to Greece, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal, in the course of which he embraced Islam in 1980. The following years were mainly devoted to the deepening his knowledge about the faith.
Over the course of the years, Mr. Wentzel has worked in television, as the central figure in the BBC documentary series Guests of God, as well as ARTE-TV’s production Auf dem Weg ins Paradies (On the way to Paradise), both about the Hajj pilgrimage. Besides writing articles, editing, and running a small publishing house called WARDA Publications, based in Hellenthal, Germany, he has also traded in natural essential oils and traditional clothing. Abd al-Hafidh has travelled across the world, and extensively so around the Muslim regions, and speaks German, English, Arabic and Turkish.
He has also worked as a pilgrim guide and helped found, lead and administrate an Islamic institution in Germany. Currently he resides in Damascus where his main activities are in the field of writing, translation, editing and publishing Islamic classic and contemporary texts.

Muhammad Isa Waley is Curator of Persian and Turkish Collections at the British Library, London. Born in 1948, he embraced Islam in London in 1974. He holds an M.A. in Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Persian Literature from the University of London. He is at present head of the Research and Publishing Subcommittee of The Islamic Manuscripts Association. His main research interests are the bibliographic, palaeographic and codicological aspects of Islamic manuscripts, and the classical verse and prose literature of Islamic spirituality in Persian, Arabic and Turkish. Dr Waley has extensive experience in the field of editing, having worked in this capacity for Dar al-Taqwa, Mountain of Light, Al-Furqan Foundation, Turath Publishing, and a number of eminent Muslim scholars.