Past Directors
- Dr Seyyed Mohammad Ali Ahmadi AbhariHead of Iranology and Islamic Studies Centre, National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Dr Mandana Barkeshli (Past Chairperson)
Associate Professor, Head of Department, Department of Applied Arts and Design, Faculty of Architecture and Environmental Design, International Islamic University Malaysia
- Dr Stefanie Brinkman
Senior Lecturer, Asia-Africa-Institute, History and Culture of the Near and Middle East, Hamburg University
- Dr Kinga Dévényi
Senior Librarian and Curator of Arabic Manuscripts, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Reader in Arabic and Islamic Studies, International Studies Institute, Corvinus University of Budapest
- Shaykh Prof. Dr Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El Tayeb
Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar
- Mr Paul Hepworth
Independent Manuscript Conservator
- Mr David G. Hirsch (Past Chairperson)
Librarian for Middle Eastern, South Asia, and Islamic Studies, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles
- Dr Omar Khalidi
Former Librarian, Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Prof. Dr Mahmud Erol Kılıç (Past Chairperson)
Secretary General, Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Member States and Professor of Sufism, Faculty of Divinity, Marmara University
- Prof. Ayman Fu'ad Sayyid
Director, Centre for Textual Editing, al-Azhar
- Prof. Abdussamad Antonio Romero Román (Past Chairperson)
Founder and Director, Azzagra Cultural Foundation and Alquería de Rosales; Member of the Superior Council of the Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)
- Prof. Dr Yasir Suleiman
Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies and His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa‘id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
- Dr Timothy Winter
Dean, Cambridge Muslim College and Sheikh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
- Prof. Dr Jan Just Witkam
Emeritus Professor of Codicology and Paleography of the Islamic World, University of Leiden
- Prof. Dr Charles Melville (President)
Professor of Persian History, University of Cambridge and Director, Shahnama Project
