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 Ali Akbar (Board Member (2022–2023))
Researcher & Editor, Bayt al-Qur'an, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Indonesia; National Research and Innovation Agency
- Dr Mandana Barkeshli (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 (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 (Chairperson)
Secretary General, Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Member States and Professor of Sufism, Faculty of Divinity, Marmara University
- Mrs. Evyn Kropf (Chairperson (2022–2023))
Librarian of Near Eastern and Religious Studies and Curator of the Islamic Manuscript Collection, University of Michigan Library
- Prof. Dr Charles Melville (President)
Professor of Persian History, University of Cambridge and Director, Shahnama Project
- Prof. Ayman Fu'ad Sayyid (President (2020–2023))
Director, Centre for Textual Editing, al-Azhar
- Mr András Riedlmayer
Bibliographer, Documentation Center of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
- Prof. Abdussamad Antonio Romero Román (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)
- Ms Kristine Rose Beers
Head of Conservation and Heritage, Cambridge University Libraries
- 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
