Ingrid Mattson is the London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies at Huron University College in London, Canada. She previously taught at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, where she founded and directed the Islamic Chaplaincy Program and served as director of the Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian Muslim Relations. She is the author of The Story of the Qur’an (Blackwell, 2008), as well as numerous articles on Islamic ethics, gender, and social issues.

Paul Nesbitt-Larking is Professor of Political Science at Huron University College in London, Canada. A scholar in political identities, citizenship, multiculturalism, and political communications, his recent publications include The Political Psychology of Globalization: Muslims in the West (Oxford University Press, 2011) and the Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He is currently President of the International Society of Political Psychology.

Nawaz Tahir is a lawyer practising in the field of civil litigation with an emphasis on personal injury and insurance law. He obtained both his LLB and a Bachelor of Arts in Administrative and Commercial Studies from Western University in London, Ontario. He is a former Adjunct Professor of Civil Procedure at Western’s Law School. He founded and co-chaired the international conference “Islam and Democracy” that inspired this book.