| Visiting Researcher | Affiliation | Research Area | Semester |
| Dr. Moriyama Teruaki | Doshisha University, Japan | Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Scholarship | Spring 2019 |
| Elsayed Elsehamy Abdelhamid | University of Manchester | Egyptian political exiles, forced migration, Istanbul | Fall 2022 - Spring 2023 |
| Aliaa Almehdar | New York University | International law, Islamic governance, international regime | Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 |
| Kevin Butts | Yale University | Arabic linguistics, Semitic and pre-/early-Islamic contexts, Islam, poetry, comparative Semitics | Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 |
| Mehmet Ali Başak | University of Ottawa | Anthropology of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Cultural Sociology, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Sociology | Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 |