Ovamir Anjum is Chief Research Officer at the Ummatics Institute. He is the author of the article “Who Wants the Caliphate?” published in 2019 at Yaqeen Institute which serves as the provocation for this project. He is professor and endowed chair of Islamic studies in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Toledo, co-editor of the American Journal of Islam and Society (previously known as the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences), and recently appointed editor-in-chief for the review board the Yaqeen Institute. His areas of research include Islamic history, theology, political thought, and history broadly. His publications include Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and Ranks of Divine Seekers: Translation of Ibn al-Qayyim’s Madarij al-Salikin(Brill, 2020), first two of four volumes. His selected publications can be accessed at https://utoledo.academia.edu/OvamirAnjum

Khairudin Aljunied is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. His primary area of specialization is on the social and intellectual history of Islam in Southeast Asia. Dr. Aljunied published several touching on the themes of orientalism and colonialism, and more recently, on cosmopolitanism and reformism in Islam. Among his publications are: Islam in Malaysia: An Entwined History (Oxford University Press, 2019); Hamka and Islam: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World (Cornell University Press, 2018); Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Southeast Asian Islam in Comparative Perspective (Edinburgh University Press, 2016); and Radicals: Resistance and Protest in Colonial Malaya (Northern Illinois University Press, 2015).