North America
- Abdul Alim Musa (1945-) USA
- Ahmad Kutty (1946-)originally from Kerala, India
- Asma Barlas (1950-) Pakistani-born Professor
- Hamza Yusuf Hanson Most Influential Islamic Scholar in the West
- Hassan Hathout (1924–2009)
- Ingrid Mattson (1963-) Canadian Muslim convert
- Jonathan A.C. Brown
- Khaled Abou El Fadl (1963-)
- Leila Ahmed (1940-)
- Louay Safi (1955-)
- Muqtedar Khan (1966-)
- Muzammil H. Siddiqi (1943-)
- Omid Safi
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933-)
- Sherifa Zuhur
- Wael Hallaq (1955-)
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“We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The English were very backward to explore and settle the continent which they had stumbled upon. The French preceded them both in their attempts to colonize the continent of North America ... and in their first permanent settlement ... And the right of possession, naturally enough, was the one which England mainly respected and recognized in the case of Spain, of Portugal, and also of France, from the time of Henry VII.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)