LOUAY M. SAFI is Executive Director of ISNA Leadership Development Center (ILDC), Plainfield, Indiana. He is a fellow of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and serves on the steering committee of the Muslim-Christian Initiative on the Nuclear Weapons Danger. He is the author of eight books, including Tensions and Transitions in the Muslim World, Peace and the Limits of War, and others. He has served as the Executive Director and Director of Research of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, Editor of the Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, and President of the Associati...