Jonathan A Brown
Title
Associate Professor
Islamic Studies and Muslim Christian Understanding
Islamic Studies and Muslim Christian Understanding
Department
Faculty - SFS
Publications
Publications
Books
- Jonathan Brown. Misquoting Muhammad. Oxford: Oneworld, 2012.
- Jonathan Brown. Very Short Introduction to Muhammad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Jonathan Brown. Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World. Oxford: Oneworld, 2009.
- Jonathan Brown. The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Articles in journals
- Jonathan AC Brown. "Faithful Dissenters: Skepticism about the Miracles of Saints in Sunni Islam." Journal of Sufi Studies 1.2 (2012).
- Jonathan AC Brown. "The Rules of Matn Criticism: There Are No Rules." Islamic Law and Society 19.4 (2012).
- Jonathan Brown. "“Is the Devil in the Details?: Tension between Comprehensiveness and Minimalism in the Shariah” ." Journal of Religious Ethics 39.3 (2011).
- Jonathan Brown. "Even if it’s not True it’s True: Using Unreliable Hadiths in Sunni Islam." Islamic Law and Society 18 (2011): 1-52.
- Jonathan Brown. "The Canonization of Ibn Majah: Authenticity vs. Utility in the Formation of the Sunni Hadith Canon." Revue des Mondes Musalmans et de la Medeterranee 129 (2011): 171-83.
- Jonathan Brown. "Did the Prophet Say It or Not?: the Literal, Historical and Effective Truth of Hadiths in Sunni Islam." Journal of the American Oriental Society 129.2 (2009): 259-85.
- Jonathan Brown. "How We Know Early Hadith Critics Did Matn Criticism and Why It’s So Hard to Find." Islamic Law and Society 15 (2008): 143-84.
- Jonathan Brown. "New Data on the Delateralization of Dad and its Merger with Za’ in Classical Arabic: Contributions from Old South Arabian and the Earliest Islamic Texts on Dad / Za’ Minimal Pairs." Journal of Semitic Studies 52.2 (2007): 335-368.
- Jonathan Brown. "Critical Rigor vs. Juridical Pragmatism: How Legal Theorists and Hadith Scholars Approached the Backgrowth of Isnads." Islamic Law and Society 14.1 (2007): 1-41.
- Jonathan Brown. "The Last Days of al-Ghazzali and the Tripartite Division of Sufi World: Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali’s Letter to the Seljuq Vizier and Commentary." Muslim World 96.1 (2006): 89-113.
- Jonathan Brown. "Criticism of the Proto-Hadith Canon: al-Daraqutni’s Adjustment of al-Bukhari and Muslim’s Sahihs." Journal of Islamic Studies 15.1 (2004): 1-37.
- Jonathan Brown. "The Social Context of Pre-Islamic Poetry: Poetic Imagery and Social Reality in the Mu’allaqat." Arab Studies Quarterly 25.3 (2003): 29-50.
Articles in books
- Jonathan AC Brown. "Scholars and Charlatans on the Baghdad-Khurasan Circuit from the Ninth to the Eleventh Centuries." The Lineaments of Islam. Ed. Paul Cobb. Leiden: Brill, 2012: 85-96