By Deniz Cifci
By Reza Shah-Kazemi
By Attiya Ahmad
By Yossef Rapoport (Fellow in Arabic, Fellow in Arabic, Oriental Institute, Oxford), Shahab Ahmed (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard University)
By Shabnam J. Holliday
By Zulfikar Hirji
By Christina Hellmich
By Eric Ormsby
By Hakan OEzoglu, Ph.D.
By Matthew S. Gordon
By Robert Service
By Jorg Matthias Determann
By Robin L. Riley
By Gareth Stansfield (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
By Laurent Bonnefoy
By Verena Klemm, Paul E. Walker (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK)
By William W. Haddad (California State University, USA)
By Khurram Hussain
By Jack Tannous
By Josepha Ivanka Wessels (Malmoe University, Sweden)
By Guy Bechor
By Dr. J. E. Peterson
By Chris Sands, Fazelminallah Qazizai
By Joel Blecher
By M. Ali Lakhani
By Mushegh Asatryan
By Peter Sluglett, Victor Kattan
By Larry Diamond (Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University), Marc F. Plattner (Editor, National Endowment for Democracy)
By Leonard Lewisohn
By Jamie Gilham