Aminah Al-Deen, Ph.D. (1993) is Professor Emerita of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University. Her book publications include: African American Islam, Questions of Faith, Transnational Muslims in America, Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century, Global Muslims in the 21st Century, History of Arab Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots and Muslim Ethics in the 21st Century. Aasim I. Padela, MD (2005, Weill Cornell Medical College) is Professor of Emergency Medicine, Bioethics and the Medical Humanities at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is an internationally renowned clinician-researcher with scholarly foci at the intersections of healthcare, bioethics, and religion. He has authored over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and co-edited three books: Medicine and Shariah: A Dialogue in Islamic Bioethics (UND Press 2021; Islam and Biomedicine (Springer 2022) and Organ Donation in Islam: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics and Society (Lexington 2023). His forthcoming monograph is titled Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah and Biomedicine: Integrating Moral and Policy Frameworks. His work and expert commentary has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, National Public Radio, BBC, and CNN.
