Chief Editor
Ali Yurtsever
Dr. Yurtsever has an undergraduate degree in Physics Education from Bosphorus University, MS and PhD degrees in Math from Ege University and MA degree in Management from Fatih University. He got his classical Islamic education during his secondary school years where he studied Arabic, Hadith, Fiqh, Tafseer, and Seerah from prominent ulama.
He taught and made research at Fatih University, Istanbul Turkey, Florida International University (FIU), Miami, FL, Georgetown University (GU) and Catholic University of America (CUA), Washington DC. He voluntarily presided Rumi Forum for Interfaith Dialogue when he was in DC between 2004-2009. In 2009 he was invited to Chicago for a noble mission, to help reviving American Islamic College (AIC) where he presided between 2012-2016. In his term, the College was revived from scratch after a long silence due to its lost operating and degree granting authority. In this respect, he is considered as the founding President of the College. When he stepped down from his position in August 2016, AIC was at its highest position academically, financially and physically since its inception.
With the invitation of Dr. Brophy, President of Benedictine University, Dr. Yurtsever joined the BenU family and started working for BenU in his capacity as the first Muslim Faith Advisor. BenU is known with its highest ratio of Muslim student population in the US. In his post, he supervised the MSA activities, organized lectures, seminars, conferences, meetings, on Islam related matters and other social issues, help recruiting Muslim students, deal with the problems of Muslim students and other students related to Islam, advised students, staff, faculty and administration. He also attended some classes as an invited speaker, to inform the students about Islam related issues, answered their questions. Furthermore, he used his network across the world to have some exchange programs with universities overseas.
He has been the president of Islamic Society of Midwest since 2016.
Editorial Board
Name Affiliation Country
| George Saliba | Columbia U | USA |
| John Voll | Georgetown U | USA |
| Wael Hallaq | Columbia U | USA |
| Zeki Saritoprak | John Carroll U | USA |
| Turan Kayaoglu | U of Washington Tacoma | USA |
| Arsalan Iftikhar | Asian-American Journalist Association | USA |
| Muhammad Shafiq | Nazareth College | USA |
| James Morris | Boston College | USA |
| Yousef Casewit | U of Chicago | USA |
| John E. Woods | U of Chicago | USA |
| Mark Swanson | Lutheran STC | USA |
| Thomas Michel | Georgetown U | USA |
| Jihad Turk | Claremont ST | USA |
| Omid Safi | Duke U | USA |
| John Esposito | Georgetown U | USA |
| Ayse Kadayifci | Georgetown U | USA |
| Kemal Silay | Indiana U Bloomington | USA |
| Scott Alexander | Catholic TU | USA |
| Alan Godlas | U of Georgia | USA |
| Jon Pahl | Lutheran Theological S PA | USA |
| Radhi Al Mabuk | U of Northern Iowa | USA |
| Richard Buliet | Columbia U | USA |
| Adnan Aslan | Suleyman Sah U Turkey | Turkey |
| Oliver Leaman | University of Kentucky | USA |
| Mehmet Ozalp | Charles Sturt U, Australia | Australia |
| Khaled Abu Al Fadl | UCLA | USA |
| Michael Shelley | Lutheran STC | USA |
| Martin Marty | University of Chicago | USA |
| Tahir Abbas | Royal United Service Inst. | UK |
| Naveed Sheikh | Keele University | UK |
| Alison Scott-Baumann | SOAS, University of London | UK |
| Mohammed Abu Nimer | American University | USA |
| Patrick Laude | Georgetown U Qatar | QATAR |
| David Grafton | Hartford Seminary | USA |
| Kim Shively | Kutztown University | USA |
| Mashood Baderin | SOAS, University of London | USA |
| Oliver Scharbrodt | University of Chester | USA |
| Walter Wagner | Respect GS, PA | USA |
| M Abdel Haleem | SOAS, University of London | UK |
| Carl W Ernst | University of North Carolina Chapell Hill | USA |
| Valentino Cottini | Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica (PISAI) | Italy |
| Farid Esack | University of Johannesburg | S Africa |
| Radwan Masmoudi | CSID, Washington D.C. | USA |
| Hossein Kamaly | Barnard College | USA |
| Abdulaziz Sachedina | George Mason University | USA |
| Souleymane Bachir Diagne | Columbia U | USA |
| Muzammil Siddiqi | Chapman University | USA |
| Ali Paya | Islamic College | UK |
| Maliha Chishti | U of Chicago | USA |
| Asifa Quraishi-Landes | U of Wisconsin Law School | USA |
| Joseph Massad | Columbia U | USA |
| P. Diego Sarrió Cucarella, M.Afr | Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica (PISAI) | Italy |
| Abdulkarim Soroush | Professor Emeritus | USA |
| Aasim Padela | U of Chicago | USA |
| Ani Zonneveld | Muslims for Progressive Values | USA |
| Alireza Doostdar | Columbia U | USA |
| Mohamed Sharkawi | Cairo University | Egypt |
| Mohammad Fadel | University of Toronto Faculty of Law | Canada |
| Daniel Madigan | Georgetown University | USA |
| Mustafa Kaya | University of Chicago | USA |
| Tarik Ramadan | University of Oxford | UK |