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Mark Noll is professor of Christian Thought and professor of history at Wheaton College (Illinois), where he has taught since 1979. As mentioned in Randall Balmer’sEncyclopedia of Evangelicalism (Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), “Noll’s contributions to Evangelicalism in the late 20th century were manifold”. He was the co-founder of the Institute for the Study of […]
Stephen Ellis is a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden and the former director of the Centre. A historian by training, he has also worked as a journalist. His main field of interest is contemporary Africa. Ellis comments: “In the past my main interests have been in politics but I have become more […]
Born in Birmingham, England, Rosalind Hackett is Professor at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Anthropology of the same University. She is also the Vice President of the International Association for the History of Religions, a founding member of the African Association […]
Bruce Hoffman is one of the foremost world experts on terrorism. He is the author of several books and articles, including Inside Terrorism (London: Victor Gollancz, 1998), translated into several languages (in French: La Mécanique terroriste, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1999). An entire chapter of this book is devoted to the issue of “religious terrorism”. Bruce Hoffman […]
Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi is professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary (Hartford, Connecticut). He is also co-editor of The Muslim World. Among his publications: Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World (Albany: State University of […]
Johannes J.G. Jansen used to be the Director of the Dutch Institute in Cairo. Since 1983, he has been an associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at Leiden University. His first book, The Interpretation of the Koran in Modern Egypt (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974), has been translated into Bosnian and Turkish, and even printed […]
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