Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History, co-author with Jane Idleman Smith of Mission to America, and co-author of Women, Religion, and Social Change. Jane Idleman Smith is Academic Dean and Professor of History of Religions at the Iliff School of Theology. She is the author of The Concept of 'Islam' in the History of Qur'anic Studies, co-author with Yvonne Haddad of Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection, and editor of Women in Contemporary Muslim Society.