Jonathan Brown

Jonathan AC Brown is Associate Professor of Islam and Muslim Christian Relations in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (Washington DC), where he teaches classes on Islamic civilization, Shariah law and Islamic intellectual history. He received his BA in History from Georgetown in 2000 and his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2006. He has studied and conducted research in Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Bosnia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, South Africa, India, Indonesia and Iran.

As his mother predicted, he has won no awards. But he has published some books, including The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon (Brill, 2007), Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Oneworld, 2009), Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy (Oneworld, 2014).