Richard McGregor is an associate professor of religion and Islamic studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He teaches courses on the Quran and interpretation, Sufism and methodology in the study of religion.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is a group of 57 nations that considers itself the collective voice of the Muslim World. It serves to both protect Muslim interests, as well as promote harmony and peace. Contact via their website contact form.

The Inner Circle, based in Cape Town, South Africa, provides support to Muslims who are marginalized based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. The organization strives to raise consciousness around gender and sexual diversity by engaging faith and beliefs and to encourage collaboration with queer members of the local, national and international Muslim community. […]

Abdullah Hamood is a Muslim American and a member of Michigan’s state legislature, a Democrat from Dearborn. Many of his constituents have expressed fear and concern over the election of Donald Trump.

Haroon Moghul is a senior fellow and director of development at the Center for Global Policy, a think tank, and the Muslim Leadership Initiative facilitator at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a research and education institute. He is the author of “How to Be a Muslim: An American Story,” a memoir of his faith journey as a second-generation […]

Angela Larian is an artist in Los Angeles who bases some of her work on the works of the Sufi poet Rumi and Zoroastrianism. Her latest series, “Khoda,” the Persian word for God, is currently being exhibited in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Contact through the Make Agency.

Aimee Froom is curator of Art of the Islamic Worlds at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and a lecturer at Rice University. She is author of Arts of Islamic Lands: The al-Sabah Collection at the MFAH.

Massumeh Farhad is chief curator and curator of Islamic art at Freer Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C.