Religion and Immigration

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is professor of history of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She has taught Middle East History and Islamic Studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Hartford Seminary, and Colgate University. She is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association. Dr. Haddad's research interest has focused on twentieth century Islamic thought and Muslims in the West. Her numerous publications include Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History; Muslim Communities in North America; The Islamic Revival; The Muslims of America; Women, Religion and Social Change; Muslims on the Americanization Path?; Muslims in the West: from Sojourners to Citizens; and Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible. Jane I. Smith is professor of Islamic studies, and co-director of the Macdonald Center for Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. She has worked extensively on Muslim communities in the United States, Christian theology in relation to Islam, historical relations between Christians and Muslims, and the role and status of women in Islam. Professor Smith is currently the co-editor of The Muslim World, editor of the 'Islam' section in the new Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions, and area editor of Women in Islamic Cultures. She has frequently traveled to various regions of the Muslim world and speaks to academic and community groups about Islam and its relationship to the West. Among Professor Smith's most recent publications are Islam in America, Muslim Minorities in the West: Visible and Invisible, and 'Islam and Christendom' in The Oxford History of Islam. She is co-director of the Henry Luce Forum in Abrahamic Religions, co-sponsored with the Greenberg Center of the University of Hartford. John L. Esposito is University Professor and director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding: History and International Affairs, at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association. His publications include the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World; The Oxford History of Islam; Islam: The Straight Path; The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?; The Islalmic Revival Since 1988; Islam and Politics; Women in Muslim Family Law; Islam and Democracy; Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations; Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam; Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality; and the forthcoming Islam 101: What Everybody Needs to Know.