Ahmad S. Dallal is dean of Georgetown University in Qatar. His research interests include early modern Islamic societies, the causes of 9/11 and the relationship between Islam and science.

Abdullah Saeed is a professor of Arab and Islamic studies and director of Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He has written widely on the role of money in Islam.

August 1996, Our Planet article by Fazlun Khalid about the Islamic approach to environmentalism. Khalid directs the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences.

Gary L. Matthews is a Bahá’í author, publisher and lecturer. His publications include numerous short works on the Bahá’í Faith, Christianity and Islam, and the book He Cometh With Clouds: A Bahá’í View of Christ’s Return. He manages Stonehaven Press, which publishes Bahá’í literature, in Knoxville, Tenn.

Read an August 13, 2012, article published by the Religion News Service about how the tenets of Islam are interpreted differently around the world.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ report “The Mosque in America: A National Portrait” (April 2001) broke ground with its focus on American Muslim congregational life.

The Gallup Center for Muslim Studies’ “Muslim Americans: A National Portrait” provides demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Muslim Americans and measures attitudes.

Todd Lawson is an associate professor in the department of Near and Middle Eastern civilizations at the University of Toronto. A specialist in Islamic mysticism, he has written about the Bahá’í Faith.

April 19, 2013, segment from PBS’ Religion & Ethics Newsweekly which discusses the relationship between faith and the environment.