With God on Our Side?

Hamza Yusuf is president of Zaytuna College. He has been a student of the classical Islamic tradition for over forty years, studying with some of the most respected scholars of our time. At Zaytuna College, he has taught courses on Islamic jurisprudence, ethics, astronomy, logic, theology, prophetic biography, hadith, as well as other subjects. He has also published numerous titles on these and other topics. He is an advisor to the Center for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He was a board advisor for George Russell’s One Nation, an interfaith bridge-building organization that strives to improve relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in the United States. He is vice-president for the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, an international initiative that seeks to address the root causes that can lead to radicalism and militancy.

Maria Dakake is an associate professor of religious studies at George Mason University. Her research specialties include Islamic intellectual history, Qur’anic studies, Shi’ite and Sufi traditions, and women’s spirituality and religious experience. In 2015, she co-edited The Study Quran, which includes a verse-by-verse commentary. Her current publication projects include a co-edited volume, The Routledge Companion to the Qur’an, and a monograph on the concept of religion as a universal phenomenon in the Qur’an and Islamic intellectual tradition.

Andrew March is a Berggruen Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He taught for ten years in the Political Science Department at Yale University, and has taught Islamic law at both Yale and New York University law schools. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of political philosophy, Islamic law and political thought, religion, and comparative political theory.