P. Aneesah Nadir is founder of Dr. Aneesah Nadir and Associates and a retired professor of social work at Arizona State University in Tempe.

M. Kabir Hassan is associate professor and associate chair of the department of economics and finance at the University of New Orleans. He spoke at a 2009 conference on Islamic finance and financial resilience.

Ibrahim Warde teaches Islamic banking and finance at Tufts University in Boston.

Isam Salah heads Islamic finance and investment at the New York law firm King & Spalding.

Lesley Hazleton is a former psychologist and journalist and is the author of Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother. Hazleton lives in Seattle and describes herself as having “deep roots in both Judaism and Catholicism.”

Manavi is a domestic abuse center for South Asian women in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Many of the women who come through the center are Muslim, and coordinators recognize religion as a major factor in battling domestic abuse. Navneet is the executive director.

Imam Mohammad Qatanani of the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, New Jersey, counsels men on domestic violence.

Read a Beliefnet column that describes Christian, Jewish and Muslim perspectives on gratitude and links to Buddhist and Hindu views.

Summer Hathout is a prosecutor in the Los Angeles district attorney’s office and co-founder of the Muslim Women’s League. She has written about misperceptions of domestic violence within the American Muslim community. Contact via the Muslim Women’s League.