Malcolm X Malcolm X, also known as Al-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz, was an iconic figure of the Civil Rights Movement. Eventually, he became a leading advocate not only for promoting the human rights of the African-American community, but for the human rights of all.

Ibn Battuta The Arab traveler Abu Abdallah Muhammad known as Ibn Battuta (1304 - 1377) spent 28 years of his life traveling, in which he covered a distance of over 120,000 kilometres and won the reputation of the greatest traveler of the East.

Khadija bint Khuwaylid Khadijah had been the first to publicly accept Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) as the Messenger of Allah, and she had never stopped doing all she could to help him.

Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldun, considered the greatest Arab historian, is also known as the father of modern social science and cultural history.

King Fahd Fahd was a son of King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al-Saud...the founder and first monarch of modern Saudi Arabia. At the time of his birth, Fahd's father was completing the consolidation of the House of Saud's power on the Arabian Peninsula...

Saladin Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, commonly known as Saladin, was one of Islam's greatest champions during the second half of the twelfth century.

Rafik Hariri Hariri served five terms as prime minister...During that time he campaigned for international assistance and debt relief, sought to bring back tourism and investment, and, most notably, oversaw the reconstruction of Beirut's historic center.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Turkey's Charismatic Pro-Islamic Leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, or AK), is one of Turkey's most popular politicians.

Wangari Maathai 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

John Kerry ..While serving in the Senate, Kerry has earned a reputation as a left-of-center legislator. He supports free trade, expansive U.S. foreign and military policy, investment in education, environmental protection and growth of the high tech New Economy.

Ahmed Shah Massoud Ahmed Shah Massoud was an Afghan military leader who played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, earning him the nickname the Lion of Panjshir.

Tariq Ramadan: Trying to Bridge A Great Divide Tariq Ramadan has the measured delivery of an academic, which is no more than you would expect from a man who used to be a high school principal and wrote his doctoral thesis on Nietzsche.

Moqtada Sadr Shi'a cleric Moqtada Sadr has been a turbulent presence in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Barack Obama Barack Obama is not a name you would expect to hear in American politics. But after his keynote address before the Democratic National Convention in Boston, the previously obscure state senator from Illinois has been the talk of the convention

Michael Moore Moore burst onto the American cultural scene in the 1980s, a chubby, extroverted rabble-rouser who hitched his political message to the medium of satirical comedy in a crusade to rouse the national conscience against corporate injustice.

Khurshid Ahmad Khurshid Ahmad was born in Delhi, India, in 1932.

Maryam Jameelah Maryam Jameelah was born Margaret Marcus to a Jewish family in New Rochelle, NY, on May 23, 1934.

Ismail Ragi Al- Faruqi (1921-1986) Pioneer in Muslim Christian relations

Mohammed Mamoun al-Hodaibi: 1921-2004 Muhammad Mamoun al-Hodaibi, born in 1921 in Sohag, Egypt, was a judge and the sixth General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Islamist group tolerated by Cairo.

Profile: Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah 1908-2002 A life dedicated to Islamic Scholarship

Jamal Badawi ...is a professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he is currently a cross-appointed faculty member in the Departments of Religious Studies and Management...

Malcolm X 1925-1965 Black nationalist and Muslim leader. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925, to Louise Norton Little and Earl Little, a Baptist minister.

Alija Izetbegovic: 1925-2003 Alija Izetbegovic was born in 1925 to a Muslim Slav family in Bosanski Samac in northern Bosnia. His family moved to Sarajevo, where his teen years were marked by the German Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II.

Muhammad Ali Born January 17, 1942, as Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., in Louisville, Kentucky, Muhammad Ali early on earned a reputation as a man dedicated to his goals and beliefs.

Edward W. Said: 1935-2003 Edward W. Said, the late University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University...was one of the most prominent intellectuals in the United States.