Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud is currently the holder of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas chair for Islamic Thought and is the founder-former director of the Center for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilisation (CASIS), Malaysia Technology University (UTM). After obtaining his doctorate from the University of Chicago under the late Fazlur Rahman in 1988, he was invited by Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas to assist him at the newly established International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) in all the
formal and non-formal academic development of the institute, including library, publication and student affairs. From 1998-2002 he served as the Deputy Director of ISTAC. From 2008 to February 2011 he served as Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of the Malay World and Civilisation (ATMA), National University of Malaysia (UKM).

Professor Wan Mohd Nor has written more than 13 books and monographs as well as more than 30 academic articles in local and international journals, of which the major ones
are: The Concept of Knowledge in Islam: Its Implication for Education in a Developing Country (1989); A Commentary on the Culture of Knowledge (in Malay) (1990); The Educational Philosophy and Practice of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas: An Exposition of the Original Concept of Islamization (1998); Development in Malaysia: Towards a Holistic Understanding (in Malay) (2000); 2 books of philosophical-mystical Malay poetry (2003 and 2004); Hadhari Muslim Society: An Epistemological and Educational Approach Towards National Unity (in Malay) (2006); a book co-authored with Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, The ICLIF Leadership Competency Model: An Islamic Alternative (2007); a book co-edited with Muhammad Zainiy Uthman, Knowledge, Language, Thought and The Civilization of Islam: Essays in Honor of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (UTM, 2010). Several of his books, articles and monographs have been translated into Malay, Indonesian, Turkish, Japanese, Persian, Russian, Bosnian and Macedonian.

Professor Dr. Alparslan Açikgenç is now a professor at the School Of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy, İbn Haldun University, He completed his undergraduate education at Ankara University (1974). He received his MA from the University of Wisconsin (1978) and his PhD from the University of Chicago (1983). In 1983, he started to work at METU Department of Philosophy. He became Assistant Professor in 1984, Associate Professor in 1987 and Professor in 1993. He worked at the University of Chicago in 1985 and at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization in Malaysia between 1995-99. Afterwards, he served as Vice Rector and faculty member at Fatih University between 2006-2009, and then held administrative and academic positions at Yıldız Technical University. Since 2017, he has been continuing his academic studies at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkiye. His main interest of research is the history of scientific traditions of diverse civilizations, primarily Islamic and Western. In addition to numerous articles and books on religion and science, particularly on epistemology and sociology of science, he is the author of Veri Felsefesi (Philosophy of Data) (1992), Being and Existence in Sadrā and Heidegger: A Comparative Ontology(Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), 1992); Bilgi Felsefesi İslam Bağlamında Bilgi Bilimden Sistem Felsefesine (Philosophy of Knowledge: From Science to System Philosophy in the Islamic Context) (Istanbul, 1992); Islamic Science: Towards a Definition (Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), 1996); Kavram ve Süreç Olarak Bilginin İslamileştirilmesi (Islamization of Knowledge as Concept and Process) (1998); Scientific Thought and Its Burdens (Istanbul, 2000); İslam Medeniyetinde Bilgi ve Bilim (Knowledge and Science in Islamic Civilization) (Istanbul, 2006). His most recent work, Islamic Scientific Tradition in History (Kuala Lumpur, 2014) won the national science book award of Malaysia for the year 2014. Currently Professor Açıkgenç is the president of Asian Philosophical Association.

He is also teaching history of philosophy at the Chair of Civilization Studies, Institute for Alliance of Civilizations, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University, Istanbul.

Ugi Suharto is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Raja Zarith Sofiah
Center for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science, and Civilization (RZS-CASIS), UTM. He was a member of the academic staff at the University of Buraimi, Sultanate of Oman (2018-2022).. He received his Ph.D (Islamic Civilization, majoring in Islamic Economics) from International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) and obtained both his Master of Economics (M.Ec) and Bachelor of Economics (B.Ec), from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). He was a Senior Lecturer Centre for Academic and Executive Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF), Bahrain. From
July 1996 – December 2000 Research Fellow at ISTAC and was an Assistant Professor at
the same institute between November 2002 – October 200. He was also the Founder and
Executive Director of Institute for Studies of Islamic Thought and Civilization (INSISTS),
Jakarta (2004-2005).

Dr Ugi has written many books related to his field, some of which are Islamic Public Finance: Reinterpretation of Zakat and Taxation, (Yogyakarta: Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Syariah Yogyakarta, 2004), Indonesia. Kitab al-Amwal: Abu ‘Ubayd’s Concept of Public Finance (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC-IIUM, 2005). Islamic Liberal Thought: Discussion on Its Central Issues (Shah Alam: Dewan Pustaka Fajar, 2007), Malaysia.

He was appointed as the Director of the Raja Zarith Sofiah Centre for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science, and Civilization (RZS-CASIS), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), effective from 1 July 2024. He obtained his Ph.D. from RZS-CASIS with a study titled “An Analysis of Legal Person Using Taklīf and ’Itibārī in Islam.” He also earned an M.Phil. from the same center with a study on the economic thought of Ḥanafī scholars in Kitāb al-Mabsūṭ by Imām al-Sarakhsī (d. 1090).

He holds a Bachelor’s degree (with honors) in Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Islamic Banking and Finance from the Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance (IIiBF), IIUM.

He is a co-founder of the Himpunan Keilmuan Muslim (HAKIM) and was one of the early initiators of the Wacana Pandangan Alam Islam (WISE) program, which has since expanded to Cairo, Egypt, and Stockholm, Sweden. Within the WISE program, he also serves as a lecturer and tutor.

He has also been involved in the Islamic banking industry as a member of the Shariah Advisory Committee of Deutsche Bank (Malaysia) Berhad (2014–2022) and OCBC al-Amin (2022–present).

Among the books he co-edited are Islam and the Environment with Zaini Ujang and Muhammad Zainiy Uthman, and Thinking Framework with Muhammad Zainiy Uthman and Sulaiman Boayao. He also co-translated with Muhammad Zainiy Uthman the book The Historic Judgment of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Riba.

‍His writings include:

“Al-Taftāzānī’s Sources of Knowledge in Sharḥ al-Talwīḥ ‘alā al-Tawḍīḥ li Matn al-Tanqīḥ fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh”

“Commercial Partnership in Islam: A Brief Survey of Kitāb al-Muḍārabah of al-Mabsūṭ by al-Sarakhsī”
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and numerous scholarly articles in newspapers and magazines.

Mohd Farid Mohd Shahran is currently the Principle Fellow/Director of the Research Centre for Shariah, Law and Politics at the Institute of Islamic Understanding (IKIM). Before joining IKIM, he was a Lecturer at the Department of Usuluddin and Comparative Religion, Kulliyyah of
Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, IIUM. He obtained his first degree in the revealed knowledge studies and Islamic heritage in fiqh and usul-fiqh from that
University and obtained degrees in Masters and Doctorate in Islamic Thought from ISTAC. His M.A. thesis was about knowledge of mantiq (logic) while his Ph.D dissertation was
about the thoughts of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. His career began as Research Assistant at ISTAC (1995-1998), Research Fellow, ISTAC (1999-2003), and then as Lecturer at IIUM (2003-2011).

In addition to writing papers for academic journals, magazines and newspapers, he also presented working papers in various seminars locally and internationally and
delivered series of talk and courses about religion, creed (aqidah) and ethics at National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN), Institute for Islamic Understanding Malaysia (IKIM) and several training institutes throughout Malaysia. He is also permanent speaker in the weekly program "Cabaran Pemikiran Masa Kini" at IKIM.fm; one of the assessment panelist for Federal Territories Aqidah and Shariah Issues and assessment panel member for Negeri Sembilan Islamic Education Curriculum.

Amongst the writings he has produced
are Isu-isu dalam Pendidikan Pemikiran Islam (2008) and Manhaj Pendidikan Gerakan
Islam (2009).

Muhammad Zainiy Uthman is a Professor at the Raja Zarith Sofiah Center for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilisation (RZS-CASIS), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, obtained his B.Sc. (1986) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (U.S.A.). After having completed his M.A. (1990) from the University of Chicago, he joined International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) in 1991 as Junior Research Fellow at the invitation of Professor al-Attas. Upon the completion of his Ph.D. at ISTAC in 1997, he served as Research Fellow, then Senior Research Fellow.

He was Associate Professor and Curator of ISTAC Library from 2002-2003 and was awarded the British Chevening Fellowship (2003-2004) where he spent an academic year at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. In 2005-2006 he returned to Oxford as Visiting Fellow at the same centre. He translated al-Attas's "The Meaning and Experience of Happiness in Islam" into Malay (ISTAC, 2002). With Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud he co-edited a book entitled Knowledge, Language, Thought and The Civilization of Islam: Essays in Honor of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (UTM, 2010).

Dr. Adi Setia served as an Associate Professor of Islamic Science and Islamic Economics at the Center for Advanced Studies in Islam, Science & Civilization (CASIS), University of Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was an Assistant Professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Faculty of Science and later at the Department of General Studies, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Prior to that, he was a postgraduate student, junior research fellow and then research fellow at the International Institute of Islamic Thought & Civilization (ISTAC) during the directorship of its founder, Professor Dr. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas. Before embarking on formal academic work, he spent some years learning at the traditional Islamic madrasahs (pondoks) of Kedah, Patani and Kelantan, under ‘ulama such as (Almarhum) Tuan Guru Haji Umar Zuhdi of Madrasah Misbahul Falah, Baling, Kedah; and (Almarhum) Tuan Guru Haji Hashim Abu Bakar of Madrasah Diniyyah Bakriyyah, Pasir Tumboh, Kelantan.

His current research interests are in the areas of History and Philosophy of Science, Islamic Science, Islamic Gift Economy (IGE), and in the systemic, operative Islamization of both the natural and social sciences according to the integrative conceptual framework articulated in Professor al-Attas’s many works, especially, The Positive Aspects of Tasawwuf: Preliminary Thoughts On An Islamic Philosophy of Science (Kuala Lumpur: ASASI, 1981), Islam and The Philosophy of Science (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 1989), Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 2001) and Islam & Secularism (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 1993).

In these research areas, he has presented seminars and courses in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, India, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, England and Scotland; translated into English a number of classical Islamic texts, such as Imam al-Shaybani’s Kitab al-Kasb, al-Ghazali’s Kitab Adab al-Kasb wa al-Ma‘ash, and Ja‘far al-Dimashqi’s al-Isharah ila Mahasin al-Tijarah (all published by IBFIM, Kuala Lumpur); as well as published numerous academic articles on Islamic Science and Islamic Economics in the journal Islamic Sciences (http://www.cis-ca.org/islamscience1.php), and seven articles on Islamic Science in the Ashgate four-volume series on Islam and Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/leaflets/islam-and-science-series.pdf). He is also active in various community-rooted initiatives among Muslims and non-Muslims relating to Permaculture, Agro-Ecology and the Gift Economy. Email: [email protected].

Asham Ahmad is Fellow at the Center for Shari'ah Laws and Politics Research at the Institute for Islamic Understanding Malaysia (IKIM). He obtained B.A. degree from IIUM and then continued pursuing studies at M.A. level in the field of Islamic thought at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC). His thesis is related to Imam al-Ghazali's Concept of Human Behaviour. He has written a monograph titled Antara Nama dan Hakikat which debates on the issue of the usage of the name Allah by non-Muslims.

The monograph “Antara Nama dan Hakikat: Kemelut Nama Allah” is the winner of Rencana Umum Terbaik, Anugerah Media Islam Negara (Amin), organized for the third time by Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim).