Jonathan AC Brown

Jonathan AC Brown (2018)

Jonathan AC Brown (born 1977 in Washington, DC ) is an American scholar of Islamic studies who converted to Islam and is an active figure in the Muslim-Christian dialogue in the United States.

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His Ph.D. he graduated from the University of Chicago in 2006 . He taught as an Islamic scholar (Assistant Prof. of Arabic and Islamic Studies) at the University of Washington in Seattle . Since 2012 he has been associate professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, named after the Jesuit priest Edmund A. Walsh (1885–1956) . There he is director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU; Prince-al-Walid-bin-Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding). The criticized US Islamic scholar John Esposito was the founding director of the center. 2014 was Jonathan Brown on also after the Saudi Arabian investor Prince Alwaleed Talal bin named Chair of Islamic Civilization appointed. He is the author of various publications on Islam , including articles on hadith , Islamic law , Salafism , Sufism and the Arabic language . He is editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law . He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations , a private American think tank .

According to the publisher, Brown has studied and researched in Egypt , Syria , Turkey , Morocco , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , South Africa , India , Indonesia and Iran .

He was one of the speakers at the 2017 IIIT European Summer School organized by the London office of the International Institute of Islamic Thought .

Publications (selection)

• Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy , Oneworld Publications, 2014 ISBN 978-1780744209 Digitized
• Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford University Press , 2011 ISBN 978-0199559282
• Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World , Oneworld Publications, Foundations of Islam series, 2009 ISBN 978-1851686636 ( partial online view )
• The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim : The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon , Brill Publishers, 2007 ISBN 978-9004158399
• "Salafis and Sufis in Egypt". 2011 ( carnegieendowment.org )
• Jonathan AC Brown: New Data on the Delateralization of Ḍād and its Merger with Ẓā 'in Classical Arabic: Contributions from Old South Arabian and the Earliest Islamic Texts on Ḍ / Ẓ Minimal Pairs . In: Journal of Semitic Studies . vol. LII, no. 2 , 2007, ISSN  0022-4480 , p. 345–352 ( online [PDF; 661 kB ; accessed on November 4, 2017]).

Web links

• Jonathan AC Brown berkleycenter.georgetown.edu
• Official website of Jonathan AC Brown

References and footnotes

1. ↑ ACMCU - accessed November 4, 2017
2. ^ David Horowitz : The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, 2006, ISBN 0-89526-003-4 ( Ebook, 2012 )
3. ↑ Jonathan AC Brown berkleycenter.georgetown.edu (accessed November 4, 2017)
4. ↑ oneworld-publications.com - accessed November 4, 2017
5. ↑ IIIT European Summer School 2017 ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Centar za napredne studije / Center for Advanced Studies, Sarajevo (accessed November 4, 2017). - Together with the European IIIT directors Beddy Ebnou ( Brussels , Belgium ) and Ahmet Alibašić ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ) and also for the introduction of Islam in the knowledge active Ziauddin Sardar from London .