Professor Jonathan Brown addresses the topic of the age of Hazrat Aisha (ra), the wife of Prophet Muhammad (saw).
Professor Brown is an American Islamic scholar who is currently Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.
He has written on Hadith, Islamic law, Sufism, Arabic lexical theory and Pre-Islamic poetry and is currently focused on the history of forgery and historical criticism in Islamic civilization and modern conflicts between late Sunni Traditionalism and Salafism in Islamic Thought.
His research has taken him to Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Indonesia, India and Iran among others.
Books authored
- Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and modern World (Oneworld Publications, Foundations of Islam series, 2009).
- The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2007).
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