Abbas Panakkal Editor

Nasr M Arif (PhD 1995, Cairo University, Egypt, and the University of Maryland, College Park, USA) is Professor of Religion and Political Science at Cairo University and served as Professor of Islamic Studies and founding Executive Director of the Institute for Islamic World Studies at Zayed University, UAE. His works are published in Arabic and translated into English, Spanish, Hungarian, Kurdish, Persian, and Urdu. His research concentrates on Islamic political heritage and thought, the history of Islamic cultures, political development, and comparative political systems.

Abbas Panakkal is a member of the advisory board of the RLBC at the University of Surrey and the director of the International Interfaith Harmony Initiative, which has been organising international interfaith conferences in collaboration with the United Nations Interfaith Initiatives, the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Department for Unity and Integration, and the International Islamic University Malaysia for a decade. Panakkal was awarded a research fellowship by Griffith University in Australia. Abbas Panakkal is currently working on a research project that explores the diversity of regional Islamic cultures. The project is focused on the diverse nature of the integration and indigenisation of vernacular Muslim Communities. He was also the project coordinator of the G20 Interfaith Summit in Australia (2014), Turkey (2015), and Germany (2017).