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Scholarlyto Makkah and The Future of Islam in the West and the East, published in 2008. Many of his booksand essays focus on Islam’s place in the West and in the United States—specifically in light of thepost-9/11 climte.SWITZERLANDramadan, dr tariqRamadan is Europe’s preeminent Muslim intellectual writing about Islam in public life. He is aprofessor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University and formerly a visiting professor at the ErasmusUniversity in Rotterdam. He is the president of the European Muslim Network think tank based inBrussels and is an advisor to the European Union on religion. Ramadan has written 15 books andproduced over 100 recordings. Since a six-year bar on entrance to the US, Ramadan made his firstpublic appearance in New York in April 2010.TURKEYkaraman, prof. dr hayrettinKaraman is one of the most prominent scholars of Islam in Turkey, and the preeminent scholar ofIslamic law (sharia) there. He publishes popular and academic texts extensively and writes a weeklycolumn in the newspaper ‘Yeni Safak’ (New Dawn). His long career in academia has garnered himmuch respect. At the pinnacle of his career Karaman was a dean at Turkey’s premier university,Marmara University. He left this position at the height of the headscarf controversy in 2001.UNITED KINGDOMmotala, hadhrat sheikhul hadith maulana yusuf [new]Shiekh Motala is the founder of the Dar ul Ulum Al Arabia Al Ilamia in Holcombe, Bury,Lancashire. He is a scholars’ scholar—many of the United Kingdom’s young Deobandi scholarshave studied under his patronage. Sheikh Motala has an expansive network of students andeducational institutions which he has founded.winter, timothy (sheikh abdal-hakim murad)Winter is Britain’s leading Muslim scholar, and also one of the most well-respected Westerntheologians in the Muslim world. He has written on various topics ranging from British Muslimhistory, theological discourse and social issues. Winter teaches theology at Cambridge Universityand is the director of Studies in Theology at Wolfson College in Cambridge. His advice is frequentlysought on the issue of Muslims in Britain.OceaniaAUSTRALIAaly, waleedAly is an Australian academic, lawyer, and Muslim community leader. He is a frequent andauthoritative commentator on Australian Muslim affairs in the media. He currently works as alecturer at the Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash University, Melbourne.el imam, sheikh fehmiEl Imam is one of Australia’s most senior Islamic scholars and leaders. As a founding memberof Victoria’s Islamic community, he has had a major influence on the development of Islam inAustralia. He is secretary general of the Victorian Board of Imams and also senior imam at thePreston Mosque in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.104