Fuad S. Naeem is a Pakistani scholar now residing in the U.S. where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Islamic Studies program at Duke University. He has an M.A. in Hinduism and Islam from the George Washington University and is a specialist in the Islamic intellectual trends of the Indian subcontinent. His fields of interest include later Islamic philosophy and Sufism, and the encounter between Islam and modernity.

Naeem's article "A Traditional Islamic Response to the Rise of Modernism" appears in the anthology Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition: Essays by Western Muslim Scholars .