Jonathan Brown

Jonathan A.C. Brown (b. 1397 H/1977 M) adalah seorang American studi Islam ulama and Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he holds the Al-Waleed bin Talal Chair in Islamic Civilization. Ia memeluk Islam to Islam and went on to earn a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago, specializing in ilmu-ilmu hadits and Islamic intellectual history.

Dr. Brown adalah salah satu yang foremost Western academic para ulama of hadith and hukum Islam writing in English. Karya-karya utamanya meliputi Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World, a comprehensive academic study of the hadith tradisi from its origins through the abad pertengahan periode to modern debates, which memiliki become a standard reference in university courses on studi Islam. His kitab Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting Nabi ﷺ's Legacy addresses the interpretive tradisi around prophetic sayings and how Muslim para ulama across the abad-abad memiliki grappled with difficult or contested hadiths.

He memiliki also written The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon, a ulamaly study of how the two most authoritative Sunni koleksi-koleksi hadits achieved their canonical status. His work Slavery and Islam addresses Islamic perspectives on slavery and the historis and theological complexity of the topic.

Dr. Brown writes for both academic and jenderal audiences and telah menjadi an important voice explaining tradisional ulama Islamship to English-speaking readers unfamiliar with the klasik tradisi. His work adalah characterized by rigorous engagement with primary Arabic and Persian sources alongside serious engagement with Western academic historiography. He follows the Sunni tradisi and his work broadly defends the coherence and sophistication of klasik ulama Islamship against reductive critiques.