Professor Dr. Safir Akhtar obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of York, United Kingdom. He has been a professor of social sciences at International Islamic University, Islamabad. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies and editor of the institute’s Urdu journal Nuqta-e-Nazar and a member of the editorial board of Maghrib awr Islam. He has widely published on political science, history, literature and Islamic studies. He has attended and participated in dozens of seminars and conferences at national and international level.

Dr. Muhammad Mushtaq Ahmad started his career as Civil Judge-cum-Judicial Magistrate and, then, joined the University of Peshawar (UOP) as Lecturer in Islamic and Oriental Studies. In 2005, he joined IIUI as Lecturer in Law and later served the same University as Chairman, Department of Law (2016-2018), and Director-General, Shari‘ah Academy (2018-2020). He obtained his degrees of LLB (Hons) Shari‘ah and Law, LLM Shari‘ah and Law and PhD in Islamic Law and Jurisprudence from IIUI and MA in Political Science from UOP. His LLM dissertation was on the legality of armed liberation struggle in Islamic and modern international law, while his PhD dissertation was on the doctrine of siyasah in the Hanafi criminal law and its implications for Islamization of laws in Pakistan. He has widely published on issues of Islamic law and jurisprudence, criminal law, international humanitarian law, Qur’anic Studies and comparative religion. He has also served the Supreme Court of Pakistan as amicus curiae and the Federal Shariat Court as jurisconsult in several cases.

Nadir Aqueel Ansari works in the field of religious and Islamic Studies, focusing on Tafsir Studies, and Modern Muslim Thought. He teaches courses in these areas at the Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Toronto and at the Humanities Department, York University, Toronto.

Dr. Muhammad Rasheed Arshad is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of the Punjab, Lahore. He obtained his Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of the Punjab in 2007. In his MA Philosophy, he was awarded K. B. Sheikh Nanak Bakhsh Silver Medal, and Khawaja Ghulam Sadiq Gold Medal by the University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of Karachi; his dissertation was on the issue of Islamic Modernism with reference to Fundamentalism and Cosmopolitan Liberalism. He also obtained Bs (Hons) in Tafseer & Hadith and M.Phil. in Hadith Studies, from the faculty of Usuluddin, International Islamic University, Islamabad. Previously he had completed Master of Business Administration degree from Hamdard University. He is a keen scholar of Islamic and Western thought. In Philosophy his major areas of interest are: Modern Political theory, Contemporary Moral Philosophy, Modernity and Postmodernism.

Dr. Habib-ur-Rehman is Assistant Professor at Shari‘ah Academy, International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI). He obtained his degree of LLB from IIUI and MA in Islamic Studies and Arabic and PhD in Islamic Jurisprudence from University of the Punjab. He is Fazil Dars-e-Nizami and also abstained diploma in Arabic language form Arabic Language Institute for Foreigners, Damascus Syria. He has widely published on family law, Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic law, Hidith studies.

Waqar Akbar Cheema is a civil servant by profession and has served on different administrative posts across Punjab, Pakistan. Before joining civil service he studied at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) and later completed Master's degree in International Relations in 2017. Moreover, he took courses in basic Islamic sciences at Mishkah University. His academic introduction is his writings on ICRAA.org (Islamic Centre for Research And Academics) and its precursor letmeturnthetables.com which are now recognized sources for Islamic rebuttals to lies and misleading missionary and orientalist propaganda. Lately, he has been engaging with certain revisionist tendencies within Muslim academia as well. He works as a freelance researcher and has authored over 300 articles. He has also co-authored a book Education & its Paradigms, besides contribution to the study titled Reflections on the Socio-political Economy: A Preliminary Discourse from an Islamic Ethical Perspective, both published by Riphah International University, Islamabad.