The complete list of Muslim clerics and scholars who were invited to participate in “Muslims Speak Out.”
SYRIA:
M. Sa’id Ramadan Al-Buti – professor of Islamic law at Damascus University
Mohammed Habash – professor of Islamic studies, member of Parliament
LEBANON:
Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah – Lebanese cleric
QATAR:
Yusuf al-Qawadari – Sunni cleric and Muslim Brotherhood Leader
Aisha al Mannai – dean, Faculty of Sharia, Qatar University
TUNISIA:
Sheikh Rashid Ghannoushi – leader of Tunisia's Islamist movement
SAUDI ARABIA:
Ahmad Turkistani – director, Institute for Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America
Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Ashaikh- Mufti of Saudi Arabia
Sheikh Salman Fahd al Ouda – Saudi cleric and General Director of IslamToday.org
Shaikh Hassan Al Saffar – Shia leader
Abdullah al Askar - history professor, King Saud University
Khalid al Dakhil – professor, King Saud University
Dr. Abdulrahman al-Matrodi -- formerly Deputy Minister of Islamic Affairs for Waqf
Abdullah Al Tayer – Saudi talk show host
EGYPT:
Amr Khaled – Egyptian evangelist in London
Ali Gomaa – Grand Mufti of Egypt
IRAQ:
Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Sistani – Iraqi cleric
Taha Jabir al-Alwani –president of Cordoba University
Sayyed Mohammed Rida Al-Musawi Al-Ghurayfi – Islamic scholar and author. Member of the first transitional assembly in Iraq (2004).
Saeed al-Hakim - Grand Ayatollah of Iraq
Sheikh Mahmoud Jarad al-Isawi -- Imam of Abdulqadir al-Jilani Mosque in Baghdad
Sheikh Khalid al-Mullah -- chairman, Sunni Islamic Scholars Movement
Sheikh Majid Al-Hafid – Sunni scholar and imam.
BAHRAIN:
Dheya Mosawi – Bahraini cleric and newspaper columnist
KUWAIT
Tareq Mohammad Al-Suwaidan -- businessman, entrepreneur, TV personality.
UAE:
Sheikh Habib Ali al-Jifri – Sufi sheikh
IRAN:
His Excellency Mohammad Khatami -- Iran’s president from 1997 to 2005. He also founded the Tehran-based International Institute for Dialogue among Civilizations and Cultures.
Dr. Mohsen Kadivar -- professor at the Tarbiat Modarres University
PAKISTAN:
Khalid Zaheer -- Director Education, Al-Mawrid
Zafar Ishaq Ansari -- director general of Islamic Research Institute, vice president at International Islamic University
Khurshid Ahmad -- scholar, professor, economist, writer and preacher
Javid Ahmad al-Ghamidi -- Islamic scholar
Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masud – professor, writer, chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology,
Dr. Zafar Ishaq Ansari -- director general, Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University
Mumtaz Ahmad – professor, Hampton University
MALAYSIA:
Salleh Yaapar -- professor at University of Science of Malaysia
Abd Aziz Bari -- professor International Islamic University
Azizan Baharuddin -- professor University of Malayasia
Chandra Muzaffar – Malaysian human rights activist
INDONESIA:
Ulil Abshar Abdalla -- founder of the Liberal Islam Network
Dr. Abdul Hadi -- professor, scholar
Dr. Yudi Latif -- rector of Paramadina University
Dr. Azyumardi Azra – rector State Islamic University Syarif member of the faculty of Sunan Kalijaga National Islamic University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Hidayatullah
Abdurrahman Wahid -- (also known as Gus Dur) President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001, and founder of the National Awakening Party
Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif – former leader of Muhammadiyah, one of the two biggest Muslim organizations in Indonesia
Abdul Munir Mulkhan -- professor, Sunan Kalijaga National Islamic University.
SPAIN:
Mansur Escudero -- secretary general of the Islamic Commission.
FRANCE:
Tariq Ramadan – European intellectual
GERMANY:
Murad Hofmann -- Germany’s ambassador to Algeria and Morocco 1987-94, former director of information for NATO
UNITED KINGDOM:
Yahya Birt --
Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad – intellectual and Imam of Cambridge Mosque
Humera Khan - activist and founder of leading Muslim magazine "Q"
Dr. Usama Hasan -- Imam, scholar
BOSNIA:
Mustafa Ceric – Grand Mufti of Bosnia
TURKEY:
Dr. Merve Kavachi -- professor at George Washington University, columnist, former member of Turkish Grand National Assembly
Fethullah Gülen - Turkish Sufi leader
SWITZERLAND:
His Highness Prince Karīm al-Hussaynī Āgā Khān IV --
CANADA:
Dr. Farhat Naseem Hashmi -- Pakistani founder and chief executive of Al-Huda International Welfare Organization
UNITED STATES
Muzzamil Siddiqi – chairman of North American Fiqh Council
Intisar Rabb – American Islamic legal scholar


