Advisory Board

Current members

 

Feisal Abdul Rauf – Imam of Masjid al-Farah, New York; Founder and Chairman of The Cordoba Initiative, and of the ASMA Society, New York, USA.

Ahmad Akgündüz – Rector, Islamic University (IUR), Rotterdam; Professor of Islamic Law and Turkish Law History, (IUR), Netherlands.

Mohamed Aziza [Shams Nadir] – Professor of Sociology, Sorbonne University; former Director, Intercultural Studies, Unesco, Paris; Director General, The Mediterranean Observatory, Rome, Italy.

Wite A. Carp – President, Sufi Movement in the Netherlands; President, World Conference for Religions for Peace (WCRP) in the Netherlands, The Hague.

Kenneth Crag – former Bishop of Oxford (A), Church of England; former professor of Philosophy, Oxford University, and Warden of St. Augustine College, Canterbury, UK.

Carl W. Ernst – Director, Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilisations; William R. Kenan Professor; Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, USA.

John L. Esposito – University Professor; Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies; Founding Director Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA.

Pinchas Giller – Rabbi, Professor of Medieval Jewish Thought, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, USA.

Martin S. Jaffee – Professor of Comparative Religion and Jewish Studies; Faculty of Comparative Religion, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA.

Anna Masala – University Professor of Turkish Studies, University «La Sapeinza», Rome, Italy.

Martinus P. Muskens – Bishop of Breda; President, National Catholic Contact Council for Interfaith Dialogue (CID), Netherlands.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr – University Professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.

Giuseppe Scattolin – Professor of Islamic Mysticism, PISAI, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy; Professor of Comparative Religions, Theological Institute, Cairo, Egypt.

Awraham Soetendorp – Rabbi, in Congregation of The Hague and Utrecht; President, European Region, World Union for Progressive Judaism; Founder and Chair of the Jewish Institute for Human Values, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

William F. Vendley – Secretary General, World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCPR), New York, USA.