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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“I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)