Abū 'Alī Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham : dark days in captivity and the quest for light and truth / Sumeyra Yildirim
Maulana Rumi : ilving as though "there is no you and I" / Zahra N. Kasamali
Qasim Amin : champion of women's liberation / Maysaa Barakat
Nawab Sir Salimullah of East Bengal / Nahid Afrose Kabir
Said Nursi : six educational leadership lessons / Zuleyha Keskin
Professor Syed Ali Ashraf : a pioneer of faith-based education / Shaikh Abdul Mabud
Malik Badri : the founder of modern Islamic psychology / Nada Ibrahim and Amber Haque
Shoaib Sultan Khan : leading to ignite the spirit of enterprise / Shiraz Kabani
Aga Khan IV : "education is an intensely moral enterprise" / Zahra N. Jamal
Majid Irsan Al-Kaylani : leading intellectual light of education through an Islamic lens / Rania Sawalhi, Ghiath Hawari
Abbas Kiarostami : Iranian filmmaker and Muslim humanist / Farouk Mitha
Rached Ghannouchi : leader of an Islamic movement / Ibrahim Enes Aksu
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im : promoter for liberal and equitable Islam / Amara Galileo
Shirin Ebadi : the spirit of resistance / Rifat Binte Lutful
Sheikh Abdalla Idris : a pioneer of Islamic schools in Canada / Asma Ahmed and Nadeem Memon
Amina Wadud : critical self-reflection in Islam toward radical transformation / Nicole Khoury and Julia Mahfouz
Hamza Yusuf : a 20th-century reviver of Islam in the West / Rasheed A. Rabbi
Farha "Ciciek" Abdul Kadir Assegaf : educational reform fom a remote Indonesian village / Fatimah Husein
Heba Raouf Ezzat : a model of Muslim women's leadership through soft power / Fella Lahmar
Lorraine O'Connor : a pioneer for change / Youcef Sai and Widad Jasmina Kid
Zainab Salbi : leadership begins within / Melanie C. Brooks and Miriam D. Ezzani
Ahmad Al-Shuqairi : from a societal influencer to an Islamic educator and inspirer of shari'a in practice / Khalid Arar and Kussai Haj-Yehia
Nadirsyah Hosen : leadership and social media / Yayan Rahayani
Dalia Mogahed : speaking up for Islam / Fida Sanjakdar
Sakina Dada : leading the change we need / Muna Saleh
Nadiya Hussain : a baker, a mother, a wife, a celebrity, a Brown woman, a Muslim, a social justice campaigner, a leader! / Aminul Hoque
Malala Yousafzai : changing the narrative / Zuhra E. Abawi
Afterword : Muslim leadership : fundamental to decolonizing education and educational leadership.