Olga Louchakova-Schwartz is Professor of Psychology and Comparative Religion at Sofia University and spiritual teacher in the traditions of Advaita Vedanta, Kindalini, Yoga and Prayer of the Heart. Her numerous publications cover a broad range of topics including autoimmune diseases of the nervous system, psychosomatic mysticism and non-dual consciousness

Nargis Virani is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at The New School in New York City. She has a PhD from Harvard University. Her research explores intersections between The Qur'an and Literatures originating in Muslim milieu. She has just completed two books on Rumi's multilingual poetry: I am the Nightingale of the Merciful: Translation of Rumi's Multilingual Poems with an Introductory Essay, and Keeping God's Secrets: Multilinguality and Mystical Discourse

Todd Lawson is Associate Professor of Islamic Thought at the University of Toronto. He teaches courses on the Qur'an, Sufism, Shi'i Islam and related topics. His most recent book is Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam. He is now writing a book on the Qur'an as sacred epic.

Carl Ernst is a specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on West and South Asia. He is the William P. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His most recent publications are How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations and Islamophobia in America.

William Chitick is Professor of Religious Studies at Stony Brook University and has published extensively on both Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi. His most recent books are In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought and Divine Love: Islamic Literature and the Path to God

Wahid Amin is a D Phil candidate at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the development of post-Avicennan philosohy in the 13th Century with a special focus on Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the school of Maragha philosophers

Mohammed Rustom is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author of The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra, and the main editor of an anthology of William Chittick's writings entitiled In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought.

Dot Clark is an experienced PersonCentred psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. Currently she is a PhD candidate in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh. Her study relates the Metaphysics of Unity of Ibn 'Arabi to psychotherapy.

Samir Mahmoud is currently the Agha Khan Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He recently submitted his doctoral dissertation on Ibn 'Arabi at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Eric Geoffroy is Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Strasbourg. He also teaches at the Open University of Catalonia and at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He is a specialist in the study of Sufism and sanctity in Islam