Seyyed Hossein Nasr

SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR (Editor-in-Chief) is University Professor of Islamic Studies at The George Washington University. An international authority on Islamic philosophy, mysticism, art, and science, as well as religion and ecology and comparative religion, he is the author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles, and is the subject of a number of books, edited collections, and articles. Some of his recent publications include The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition (2008), Islam in the Modern World (2010), In Search of the Sacred (2010), and Metaphysical Penetrations (a translation of Mulla Sadra’s Kita b al-Masha’ir, 2014). CANER K. DAGLI (General Editor) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. A specialist in Sufism, Islamic philosophy, interfaith dialogue, and Quranic studies, his publications include The Ringstones of Wisdom (2004) (an annotated translation of Ibn al-’Arabi’s Fusus al-hikam), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Science, Philosophy, and Technology in Islam (2014, senior co-editor) and Ibn al-’Arabi and Islamic Intellectual Culture: From Mysticism to Philosophy (2015). MARIA MASSI DAKAKE (General Editor) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University, and specializes in Shiism, Sufism, Islamic philosophy and theology, the Quran, interfaith dialogue, and issues related to women and the feminine in classical Islam. She is the author of The Charismatic Community: Shiite Identity in Early Islam (2007), and is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to the Quran (forthcoming). JOSEPH E. B. LUMBARD (General Editor) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Arabic and Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah and is an Associate Editor for the Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur’an (in progress). A specialist in Quranic Studies, Sufism, Islamic philosophy, and interfaith dialogue, he is the editor of Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition (2nd edition, 2010), and author of Submission, Faith and Beauty: The Religion of Islam (2009) and Love and Remembrance: The Life and Teachings of Ahmad al-Ghazali (2015). MOHAMMED RUSTOM (Assistant Editor) is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University, specializing in Islamic philosophy and theology, Sufism, and Quranic exegesis. He is the author of The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra (2012) and translator of The Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration (2016) by Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali.