The Annual York-Noor Lecture Series 2010-20101: Recent Publications on Islam and Muslim Societies

presents

Two lectures by Dr. Jonathan Brown, author of Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Oneworld, 2009)

The Challenge of Speaking for the Prophet: Interpreting Muhammad’s Legacy

Date: Sunday January 16, 2011
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, Noor Cultural Centre
Admission: $5

and

What Really Happened? The Complex Question of Historical Criticism in the Early Islamic Period

Date: Monday January 17, 2011
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Location: 010 Vanier College Senior Common Room, York University
Admission: Free

Jonathan Brown is Assistant Professor of Islam and Muslim Christian Relations in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.  He received his BA in History from Georgetown University in 2000 and his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2006.  Dr. Brown has studied and conducted research in Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Indonesia and Iran, and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  His book publications include 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) and Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).  He has published articles in the fields of Hadith, Islamic law, Sufism, Arabic lexical theory and Pre-Islamic poetry and is the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islamic Law.  Dr. Brown’s current research interests include the history of forgery and historical criticism in Islamic civilization, comparison with the Western tradition; and modern conflicts between Late Sunni Traditionalism and Salafism in Islamic thought.

See here for the full series of this year’s York-Noor lectures.

Image: Leaf from a Hadith manuscript