Allameh Mohammad-Taqi Ja'fari (Persian: علامه محمد تقی جعفری‎) (15 August 1925 – 16 November 1998) was an Iranian Shi'a scholar, philosopher, intellectual, and Islamic theologist. He was an expert in various fields such as history, logic, metaphysics, philosophy, literature, mysticism, jurisprudence, and philosophy of science.

Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i or Sayyid Mohammad Hossein Tabataba'i (Persian: علامه سید محمد حسین طباطبائی‎, 16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981), commonly known as Allameh Tabataba'i, was one of the most prominent thinkers of philosophy and contemporary Shia Islam. He is famous for Tafsir al-Mizan, a twenty-seven-volume work of Quranic exegesis, which he worked on from 1954 until 1972.

Amina Haydar al-Sadr, known as Bint al-Huda, was an Iraqi educator and political activist who was executed by Saddam Hussein along with her brother, Ayatullah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, in 1980. Aminah Haidar as-Sadr was born in 1938 in Kazimiyah, Baghdad where she would eventually establish several religious schools for girls. Bint al-Huda played a significant role in creating Islamic awareness among the Muslim women of Iraq. She was in her twenties when she began writing articles in al-Adwaa, the Islamic magazine printed by the religious intellectuals of Najaf, Iraq in 1959.

Amina Inloes is originally from the US and has a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter on Shi'a hadith. She is the program leader for the MA Islamic Studies program at the Islamic College in London and also the Managing Editor of the Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies.