Dr. Mehdi Golshani was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1939. He received his early education in Isfahan and graduated from Tehran University with a B. S. in Physics in 1959. He then went to the United States to continue studies in physics. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California in Berkeley in 1969, with specialization in particle physics. In 1970, he joined Sharif University of Technology in Tehran and for over three decades has had a strong voice in the direction and design of the educational programs in the science departments.

Professor Lynda Clarke is a professor of Islamic Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She is the author of numerous publications on Islamic law, Shi'a studies, and contemporary Islamic thought.

Dr. Kalbe Sadiq also known as Moulana Dr. Kalbe Sadiq is an internationally renowned Islamic scholar, thinker, reformer, educationist and preacher.

Dr. Jalal al-Haqq

Ian Keith Anderson Howard, 1939-2013. I. K. A. Howard, who died in March 2013, was a distinguished scholar of Islamic studies, and one of the few Western scholars to devote themselves the study of Shi’ah Islam. He translated a number of important Shi’ah texts and wrote a series of articles on Shi’ah Islam at a time when there was little other work being undertaken on this important subject in Western universities, as such he can be seen as a pioneer in the field. For many years he held a senior lectureship at the University of Edinburgh where he taught Arabic and Islamic studies.