Jaan S. Islam is a PhD Candidate of Islamic Studies and AHRC Doctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has multiple publications in comparative political thought, and currently studies Salafi-Jihadism and decolonial political theory. Islam's forthcoming papers include an analysis of postmodern influences on jihadist thought, and a linguistic and in-tellectual history of Salafism.

Adem Eryigit is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Igdir. He has numerous publications in Islamic theology, and his latest book studies the political thought of Ibn Taymiyya and his theory of jihad. Eryigit previously studied for eight years in Mecca, and completed his PhD at the University of Ankara.