Our Authors


A.K Abdul Majeed	He was born in Calicut in 1965, was educated at Farook College, Calicut and E.F.L , Hyderabad.
Abu Ilham	He was born in southern state of Kerala in 1968. Graduation and in Law ( BA and LLB) at , (LLM)in Law at and (Cusat). He discontinued the master’s with a of not leading an or bureaucratic and never pursued a in Law.
Ahmed Muhammedi	He is a prolific writer, voracious reader and a based in Calicut. He is a former professor of Arabic, too.
Alija Izetbegovic	He was a Bosnian activist, lawyer, author, philosopher and politician, who in 1990, became the first President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served in this role until 1996, when he became the member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving until 2000. He was also the author of several books.
Al-Qushayri	He was born in 986 in Iran. He was a scholar in almost all disciplines of traditional Islam. His greatest legacy consisted of his writings. Apart from the famous work Risala, there are six published works of Al-Qushayri.
Amina Wadud	She is a former professor of Islamic Studies and a mother of five. She is struggling for justice for women within the global Islamic community. In 2005, she made international headlines when she helped to promote new traditions by leading the Muslim Friday Prayer in New York City, provoking a firestorm of media controversy and kindling charges of blasphemy among conservative Muslims worldwide. Her books are both revolutionary and urgent.
Andy Stern	He is a freelance writer, specialising in international politics, trade, energy and media. His columns have been published in The Guardian and Le Monde, and he was worked as a foreign correspondent for variety. He has also made a number of television documentaries on political and cultural topics, including “Oklahoma City after the Bomb”.
Ashraf kadakkal	Ashraf kadakkal is an assistant professor at University of Kerala, a columnist and writer. He was born at Kadakkal, located in the eastern part of Kollam district, Kerala. He was educated at TKM college,Kollam, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Al Azhar University , Cairo.
Dr. Ali Shariati	He was an Iranian philosopher, sociologist and one among the most respected Muslim intellectuals in the 20th century. His vision of sociology was quite unconventional and the way he conceived and practiced Islam was brilliantly revolutionary.
Dr. Ang Swee Chai	An orthopaedic surgeon who worked with civilians during the Lebanese Civil War. She grew up supporting Israel. Arabs, she was told, were terrorists. But in 1982, the British media broadcast the relentless bombing of Beirut by Israeli planes. Shocked, her view of Israel began to change.
Dr. Huassain Randathani	He was born at Marakkara village in malappuram, the Mappila heartland of Kerala in 1958. He was educated at Farook College, Calicut and Aligarh Muslim University in UP. He was awarded Ph.D by the University of Calicut for his thesis on the Mappila Muslim Society of 19th century.
Dr. Umar Taramel	Dr Umer Taramel was born in Thiroorankadi , Malappuram in 1961. He is an associate professor of Malayalam at University of calicut.
Katherine Bullock	She is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto at Mississauga. Her teaching focus is political Islam from a global perspective, and her research focuses on Muslims in Canada, their history, contemporary lived experiences, political and civic engagement, debates on the veil, and media representations of Islam and Muslims. She was the editor of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences from 2003 - 2008, the Vice-President of The Association of Muslim Social Scientists (North America) from 2006 - 2009, and the Executive Director, Education, Media and Community Outreach, for ISNA-Canada from 2003-2005. Her publications include: Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves and Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes which has been translated into Arabic, French, and Turkish. She is also President of The Tessellate Institute, a non-profit research institute, and of Compass Books, dedicated to publishing top-quality books about Islam and Muslims in English. Originally from Australia, she lives in Oakville with her husband and children. She embraced Islam in 1994.
M Nisar	M A and M Phill from the department of History, University of Calicut. He has submitted a thesis on the topic Social Exclusion and Social Mobility of Dalits in Kerala: A study on Ayyankali Movement in the University of Calicut. Currently, he is a researcher at University of kerala.
Malcolm X	A legendary figure to the readers interested in the issue of social justice, Malcolm was born in USA. As a dynamic public speaker, Malcolm X attracted thousands of African Americans to Islam. In 1964, he was assassinated.
Meena Kandasamy	She is a post graduate in English Language and Literature. She has served as the editor of “ The Dalit” a bimonthly, alternative Tamil magazine. Meena has translated five Tamil works in to English. She is considered as one of the leading poets in Indian English.
Prof. U Muhammed	Former Principal of Farook College, Calicut, Kerala.He was awarded a senior fellowship by the ICHR, New Delhi to work on a project: ‘Educational Empowerment of Kerala Muslims – A Socio-Historical Perspective’. His smaller publications are related to subjects like education, reservation, minority questions, Sachar Committee Report and the like.
Ralph Schoenman	He (born 1935) is an American left-wing activist who was a personal secretary to Bertrand Russel and became general secretary of the Bertrand Russel Peace Foundation. Schoenman was educated at Princeton University, but then left the U.S. for Britain in 1958. He was involved in various protest activities during his student days and became active in the CND after arriving in Britain. This brought him into contact with Russell, for whom Schoenman began working in 1960. Bernard Lewis wrote critically of Schoenman's influence on the aged philosopher, painting Schoenman as partly responsible for Russell's virulent anti-Americanism, in contrast to his earlier pronouncements against Communism. Since 2002, he has been working with documentary filmmaker, Mya Shone, providing commentary for radio stations in many parts of the United States and Canada, and producing the "Taking Aim" radio show, billed as "Uncompromising, fact intensive exposés of the hidden workings of a capitalist system addicted to permanent war". In about 2009 they moved from broadcasting over WBAI to an Internet webcast.
Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini	He is known in the west as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammed Reza pehlavi, the Shah of Iran. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme leader, a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation. Khomeini was a marja ("source of emulation") in Twelver shi'a Islam, author of more than forty books. He spent more than 15 years in exile for his opposition to the last Shah. In his writings and preaching he expanded the Shi'a theory of Velayate Faqih, the "guardianship of the jurisconsult (clerical authority)" to include theocratic political rule of Islamic Jurists. This principle (though not known to the wider public before the revolution was installed in the new Iranian constitution after being put to a referendum. He was named Man of the Year in 1979 by American newsmagazine TIME for his international influence, and has been described as the "virtual face of Islam in Western popular culture" where he remains a controversial figure.
S Muhammed Hussain Nainar	Dr. Nainar is a renowned academician and author. He served as the head of the department of oriental studies at the University of Madras for nearly three decades until his retirement in 1953. He was invited by the Venkateshwara University in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh to set up the first Arabic department there, and served as the head of the department of Arabic until his death in September 1963 at the age of 65.
S.K. Biswas	Swapan K Biswas was born in Kolkata in 1947. In his early days, he was actively associated with the Communist movement and with other momentous social movements of rural Bengal. He is a prolific writer, veracious reader and an original thinker. He is a tireless organiser of several institutions.
Sheikh Zainuddin Makhdum	Shaikh Zainuddin Makhdum was a well-known 16th century scholar in northern Kerala. Hailed from the renowned Makhdum family from the town of Ponnani in Malabar, he was educated in Mecca. His family traced its descent to migrants from Yemen, who played a leading role in the spread of Islam in southern India.
Susan Nathan	She is an Israeli writer of English origin. Nathan formed the view that much of Israel’s Arab population were neglected and oppressed. In her works, Nathan examined the historical, political and cultural currents of the West asian conflict.
Talal Asad	Asad has made important theoretical contributions to Post colonialism, Christianity, Islam, and ritual studies and has recently called for, and initiated, an anthropology of secularism. Using a genealogical method developed by Friedrich Nietzsche and made prominent by Micheal Foucault, Asad interrogate terms of comparison that many anthropologists, theologians, philosophers, and political scientists receive as the unexamined background of thinking, judgment, and action as such. By doing so, he creates clearings, opening new possibilities for communication, connection, and creative invention where opposition or studied indifference prevailed.
Tariq Ramadan	He is a Swiss academic and writer. He is also a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St Antony’s College). He also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology. He is Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies (Qatar), and Director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) (Doha, Qatar). He advocates the study and re-interpretation of Islamic texts, and emphasizes the heterogeneous nature of Western Muslims. In 2008, in an open online poll, Tariq Ramadan was voted the 8th on the list of Top 100 public Intellectuals in the world by Prospect Magazine (UK). He is the Grandson of Famous Islamic scholar and Founder of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hassan all banna.
Unni Nanu Nair	He is a poet based in north Malabar.
Ziauddin Sardar	He is one of the world’s foremost Muslim Intellectuals and author of more than 40 books on science, religion and contemporary culture. He is listed on Prospect Magazine’s “Britain’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals “ and has been described as “Britain’s own Muslim Polymath”.

A.K Abdul Majeed

He was born in Calicut in 1965, was educated at Farook College, Calicut and E.F.L , Hyderabad.

Abu Ilham

He was born in southern state of Kerala in 1968. Graduation and in Law ( BA and LLB) at , (LLM)in Law at and (Cusat). He discontinued the master’s with a of not leading an or bureaucratic and never pursued a in Law.

Ahmed Muhammedi

He is a prolific writer, voracious reader and a based in Calicut. He is a former professor of Arabic, too.

Alija Izetbegovic

He was a Bosnian activist, lawyer, author, philosopher and politician, who in 1990, became the first President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served in this role until 1996, when he became the member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving until 2000. He was also the author of several books.

Al-Qushayri

He was born in 986 in Iran. He was a scholar in almost all disciplines of traditional Islam. His greatest legacy consisted of his writings. Apart from the famous work Risala, there are six published works of Al-Qushayri.

Amina Wadud

She is a former professor of Islamic Studies and a mother of five. She is struggling for justice for women within the global Islamic community. In 2005, she made international headlines when she helped to promote new traditions by leading the Muslim Friday Prayer in New York City, provoking a firestorm of media controversy and kindling charges of blasphemy among conservative Muslims worldwide. Her books are both revolutionary and urgent.

Andy Stern

He is a freelance writer, specialising in international politics, trade, energy and media. His columns have been published in The Guardian and Le Monde, and he was worked as a foreign correspondent for variety. He has also made a number of television documentaries on political and cultural topics, including “Oklahoma City after the Bomb”.

Ashraf kadakkal

Ashraf kadakkal is an assistant professor at University of Kerala, a columnist and writer. He was born at Kadakkal, located in the eastern part of Kollam district, Kerala. He was educated at TKM college,Kollam, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Al Azhar University , Cairo.

Dr. Ali Shariati

He was an Iranian philosopher, sociologist and one among the most respected Muslim intellectuals in the 20th century. His vision of sociology was quite unconventional and the way he conceived and practiced Islam was brilliantly revolutionary.

Dr. Ang Swee Chai

An orthopaedic surgeon who worked with civilians during the Lebanese Civil War. She grew up supporting Israel. Arabs, she was told, were terrorists. But in 1982, the British media broadcast the relentless bombing of Beirut by Israeli planes. Shocked, her view of Israel began to change.

Dr. Huassain Randathani

He was born at Marakkara village in malappuram, the Mappila heartland of Kerala in 1958. He was educated at Farook College, Calicut and Aligarh Muslim University in UP. He was awarded Ph.D by the University of Calicut for his thesis on the Mappila Muslim Society of 19th century.

Dr. Umar Taramel

Dr Umer Taramel was born in Thiroorankadi , Malappuram in 1961. He is an associate professor of Malayalam at University of calicut.

Katherine Bullock

She is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto at Mississauga. Her teaching focus is political Islam from a global perspective, and her research focuses on Muslims in Canada, their history, contemporary lived experiences, political and civic engagement, debates on the veil, and media representations of Islam and Muslims. She was the editor of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences from 2003 - 2008, the Vice-President of The Association of Muslim Social Scientists (North America) from 2006 - 2009, and the Executive Director, Education, Media and Community Outreach, for ISNA-Canada from 2003-2005. Her publications include: Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves and Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes which has been translated into Arabic, French, and Turkish. She is also President of The Tessellate Institute, a non-profit research institute, and of Compass Books, dedicated to publishing top-quality books about Islam and Muslims in English. Originally from Australia, she lives in Oakville with her husband and children. She embraced Islam in 1994.

M Nisar

M A and M Phill from the department of History, University of Calicut. He has submitted a thesis on the topic Social Exclusion and Social Mobility of Dalits in Kerala: A study on Ayyankali Movement in the University of Calicut. Currently, he is a researcher at University of kerala.

Malcolm X

A legendary figure to the readers interested in the issue of social justice, Malcolm was born in USA. As a dynamic public speaker, Malcolm X attracted thousands of African Americans to Islam. In 1964, he was assassinated.

Meena Kandasamy

She is a post graduate in English Language and Literature. She has served as the editor of “ The Dalit” a bimonthly, alternative Tamil magazine. Meena has translated five Tamil works in to English. She is considered as one of the leading poets in Indian English.

Prof. U Muhammed

Former Principal of Farook College, Calicut, Kerala.He was awarded a senior fellowship by the ICHR, New Delhi to work on a project: ‘Educational Empowerment of Kerala Muslims – A Socio-Historical Perspective’. His smaller publications are related to subjects like education, reservation, minority questions, Sachar Committee Report and the like.

Ralph Schoenman

He (born 1935) is an American left-wing activist who was a personal secretary to Bertrand Russel and became general secretary of the Bertrand Russel Peace Foundation. Schoenman was educated at Princeton University, but then left the U.S. for Britain in 1958. He was involved in various protest activities during his student days and became active in the CND after arriving in Britain. This brought him into contact with Russell, for whom Schoenman began working in 1960. Bernard Lewis wrote critically of Schoenman's influence on the aged philosopher, painting Schoenman as partly responsible for Russell's virulent anti-Americanism, in contrast to his earlier pronouncements against Communism.

Since 2002, he has been working with documentary filmmaker, Mya Shone, providing commentary for radio stations in many parts of the United States and Canada, and producing the "Taking Aim" radio show, billed as "Uncompromising, fact intensive exposés of the hidden workings of a capitalist system addicted to permanent war". In about 2009 they moved from broadcasting over WBAI to an Internet webcast.

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini

He is known in the west as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammed Reza pehlavi, the Shah of Iran. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme leader, a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation.

Khomeini was a marja ("source of emulation") in Twelver shi'a Islam, author of more than forty books. He spent more than 15 years in exile for his opposition to the last Shah. In his writings and preaching he expanded the Shi'a theory of Velayate Faqih, the "guardianship of the jurisconsult (clerical authority)" to include theocratic political rule of Islamic Jurists. This principle (though not known to the wider public before the revolution was installed in the new Iranian constitution after being put to a referendum.

He was named Man of the Year in 1979 by American newsmagazine TIME for his international influence, and has been described as the "virtual face of Islam in Western popular culture" where he remains a controversial figure.

S Muhammed Hussain Nainar

Dr. Nainar is a renowned academician and author. He served as the head of the department of oriental studies at the University of Madras for nearly three decades until his retirement in 1953. He was invited by the Venkateshwara University in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh to set up the first Arabic department there, and served as the head of the department of Arabic until his death in September 1963 at the age of 65.

S.K. Biswas

Swapan K Biswas was born in Kolkata in 1947. In his early days, he was actively associated with the Communist movement and with other momentous social movements of rural Bengal. He is a prolific writer, veracious reader and an original thinker. He is a tireless organiser of several institutions.

Sheikh Zainuddin Makhdum

Shaikh Zainuddin Makhdum was a well-known 16th century scholar in northern Kerala. Hailed from the renowned Makhdum family from the town of Ponnani in Malabar, he was educated in Mecca. His family traced its descent to migrants from Yemen, who played a leading role in the spread of Islam in southern India.

Susan Nathan

She is an Israeli writer of English origin. Nathan formed the view that much of Israel’s Arab population were neglected and oppressed. In her works, Nathan examined the historical, political and cultural currents of the West asian conflict.

Talal Asad

Asad has made important theoretical contributions to Post colonialism, Christianity, Islam, and ritual studies and has recently called for, and initiated, an anthropology of secularism. Using a genealogical method developed by Friedrich Nietzsche and made prominent by Micheal Foucault, Asad interrogate terms of comparison that many anthropologists, theologians, philosophers, and political scientists receive as the unexamined background of thinking, judgment, and action as such. By doing so, he creates clearings, opening new possibilities for communication, connection, and creative invention where opposition or studied indifference prevailed.

Tariq Ramadan

He is a Swiss academic and writer. He is also a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University (Oriental Institute, St Antony’s College). He also teaches at the Oxford Faculty of Theology. He is Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies (Qatar), and Director of the Research Centre of Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) (Doha, Qatar). He advocates the study and re-interpretation of Islamic texts, and emphasizes the heterogeneous nature of Western Muslims.

In 2008, in an open online poll, Tariq Ramadan was voted the 8th on the list of Top 100 public Intellectuals in the world by Prospect Magazine (UK). He is the Grandson of Famous Islamic scholar and Founder of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hassan all banna.

Unni Nanu Nair

He is a poet based in north Malabar.

Ziauddin Sardar

He is one of the world’s foremost Muslim Intellectuals and author of more than 40 books on science, religion and contemporary culture. He is listed on Prospect Magazine’s “Britain’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals “ and has been described as “Britain’s own Muslim Polymath”.

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