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Jonathan A. C. Brown

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جوناثان براون

American scholar of Islamic studies (born 1977 in Washington, D.C.), Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University. A convert to Islam (1997), he works on hadith, Islamic law and the Prophet ﷺ's legacy; his books include The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim (2007), Misquoting Muhammad (2014) and Slavery and Islam (2019).

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Scholar · writer
Region
Americas & Oceania
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari · Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda · Abd al-Halim Mahmud

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    sunni-hanbali (self-identified)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years1977

    Sources

    • Jonathan A. C. Brown — English Wikipedia
    • Jonathan A. C. Brown — Wikidata
    • Jonathan Brown, 'The Shariah, Homosexuality & Safeguarding Each Other's Rights in a Pluralist Society' (ImanWire, 2016)
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    islam.museum contributors. “Jonathan A. C. Brown”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/jonathan-a-c-brown/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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