v Zafar Ishaq Ansari
v Mostafa Abd-El-Barr
v Nadeem Haque
v A. Karim Ahmed
v Qaiser Mushtaq
v Nahyan Fancy
v Muhammad Suheyl Umar
v Muhammad Saleem
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afar
Ishaq Ansari is
Director General, Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University,
Islamabad. He holds a Masters and Ph.D. degrees from McGill University, Montreal
Canada. He taught at the University of Karachi, Princeton University, King
Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals,
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and International Islamic University, Islamabad.
He
edits Islamic Studies and is a member of the editorial board of Journal
of Islamic Studies, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Journal of
Muslim Minority Affairs, Journal of Qur’~nic
Studies
and Studies in Contemporary Islam.
He
is also a member of the international scientific committee appointed by UNESCO
for the academic supervision of its 6-volume series on various aspects of
Islamic Culture, and is one of two editors of its first volume, The
Foundations of Islam.
He
has contributed a large number of research articles to journals of international
repute and to Encyclopaedia Britannica and Encyclopaedia of Religions.
He has currently editing and translation Sayyid Abul Ala Mawdudi’s Tafhim al-Quran under the title Towards Understanding of the Quran; so far six volumes have been published.
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ostafa Abd-El-Barr obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Canada, in the area of Computer Engineering in 1986. In July 1986 he joined the Faculty of the Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, where he was promoted to the Full Professor rank in July 1993.
He has
long experience in the area of Computer Science and Engineering. He has taught
both graduate and undergraduate courses in these areas in Canada, Kuwait, and in
Saudi Arabia.
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Karim Ahmed is the
Director Director, International Programs, National Council for Science and
Environment, and Program Director, Georgetown Center for the Study of Science
and Religion, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
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adeem
Haque has a professional
background in Civil and Environmental Engineering,
having obtained a degree from the University of London, King's College
and a degree in Economics at the University of Toronto. He has had a career as a civil and
environmental engineer for several years and is currently a management
consultant with an international consulting firm.
Mr. Haque's research interests since the mid-1980's
have led him to write several articles and philosophical short stories on Islam,
rationality and the history of science. He co-authored
two articles that appeared in the Organization
of Islamic Conference Journal Islamic Thought
and Scientific Creativity. In 1995, he co-authored
From Facts to Values: Certainty , Order Balance and their
Universal Implications, published by Optagon Publications Ltd.
He has also
recently
finished, as co-author, two soon to be published, books:
Nature in Islam: Socio-Environmental Concern for the 21st Century and Beyond and
From Microbits to Everything: A New Unified View of Physics and Cosmology.
He is currently working on fourth book that develops the
foundations of an Islamic theory of biological evolution.
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aiser Mushtaq is professor of Mathematics, Quaid-e Azam University, Islamabad.
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uhammad
Saleem is an applied mathematician/computer
scientist at Silicon Valley's, San Jose State University. His primary assignment is the teaching of Graduate
and Undergraduate courses. While "teaching" takes up most of his energy, it
does not stop him from conducting research in the field of computational aerodynamics.
His three recent papers on Generalized Minimal Residuals, Conjugate Gradients and Frechet Derivatives will be ready for publication
by the end of this year. From time to time, he gives talks/seminars at professional conferences
in the U.S.A. and abroad. He has refereed for math/physics journals and have served on dissertation committees for
graduate students at the University of Missouri, St. Louis and the State University in San Jose.
His interest in the Theory of Relativity and the Unification of Forces has led me into my recent association with
CTNS, where he is positive that the upcoming meetings in Berkeley and then in Islamabad
will give him various opportunities to broaden his knowledge in the subjects of Relativity and Unification.
Muhammad Saleem is a strong supporter of community service. For the last six years,
he has been working as the volunteer principal of the Sunday Islamic School in San Jose. This school provides for the religious needs of about 180
students ranging from KG to 12th grade. He has also served on the Board of Directors for the Islamic
Education and Information Service in San Jose. In addition to CTNS, he am a member of SIAM (Society for Industrial and
Applied Mathematics) and MAA (Mathematical Association of America).
His articles have appeared in research journals and conference proceedings.
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ahyan Fancy graduated, magna cum laude, from Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, in Mathematics and Biochemistry, in June 1997. He spent a year as a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at Knox College, creating new labs for Biochem courses, that resulted in a publication: "Examining the Rate of Renaturation for Different Types of DNA," Journal of Chemical Education, 1999, 76 (5), p. 646--648. From there he proceeded to University of Toronto for his M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science, completing a Master's paper in History of Math, on the foundations of calculus in the seventeenth century, specifically the work of Isaac Barrow, Newton's mentor. After receiving his degree from Toronto in 1999, Fancy moved to University of Notre Dame for a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science. Fancy is interested in understanding the absorption of Greek science into Islamic traditon that “led to the so-called Golden Age of Islamic science, in order to develop a newer conception of Islamic science for the modern age.”
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uhammad
Suheyl Umar
received his classical (school) education at Central Model School,
Lahore, Forman Christian College, Lahore, Govt. College, Lahore, BA (English,
Philosophy) Govt. College, Lahore, MA (English); along with acquiring Arabic,
Persian and traditional Islamic Sciences (Arabic, Persian, Tajwid and Hifz).
Before
starting his career at the Iqbal Academy he was a consultant to Suhail
Academy, a publishing enterprise renowned for the high degree of accuracy,
neatness and beauty of its English, Arabic and Persian reprints.
He
also worked as the Academic Director,
Institute of Islamic Culture, Chief Editor, Al-Ma‘arif and later on as Visiting scholar to International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
He
also Edited Studies in Tradition,
Quarterly Journal devoted to traditional studies on Metaphysics, Philosophy,
Literature, Art and Science. Well
versed in Urdu, English, Arabic, and Persian, he has contributed number of
articles on Islamic and literary themes to the reputed academic journals apart
from publishing works in English, Urdu and Persian on Iqbal, Islamic Studies,
literature and Sufism.
He specializes in Sufism as well as in the thought of Iqbal and in the intellectual history of the Indian subcontinent form Shah Waliullah to Iqbal. M. S. Umar was educated at Lahore and now works as the Director, Iqbal Academy Pakistan. He specializes in Sufism as well as in the thought of Iqbal and in the intellectual history of the Indian subcontinent form Shah Waliullah to Iqbal. He also teaches at ISTAC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia..