Collaboration in non-Muslim lands – Jonathan Brown
Dr. Jonathan Brown speaks about Islamic rules of collaboration in non-Muslim majority land.
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Stoning and Hand Cutting in Islam – Jonathan Brown
Often the only things people in the West associate with Islam are stoning and hand chopping. These images permeate our culture, from the trailer of hits like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) to straight-to-cable pablum like Escape: Human Cargo (1998) (again, in the trailer… ‘If you can’t live by their rules, you might die by them’). There is no better example of how[Read More…]
Hadith & Western Criticism by Jonathan Brown
In fact, there is no kind of modern criticism of the content of a hadith, there is no type of criticism that I have come across in the modern world of the content of hadith that does not have precedence amongst Muslims. Even Sunni scholars who nowadays are seen as the kind of arch proto-salafis like Shamsadeen ad Dhahabi or[Read More…]
How to understand Prophetic Speech – Jonathan Brown
He (Muhammad) ﷺ does not speak of his own desire. It is no less than an Inspiration sent down to him ﷺ (Surah Najm, 53:3-4) The Qur’an repeatedly commands every Muslim to follow the Prophetic example. The Traditions (Ahadith) of the Prophet ﷺ, often more than the Qur’an, govern Muslim life in their ability to articulate practice of the faith. The[Read More…]
Social media’s culture: An Islamic perspective
Anyone who follows social media or even cable news has wittingly or unwittingly come across what is called, for better or for worse, ‘Call-Out Culture,’ namely the phenomenon of representatives of particular points of view, often social justice or anti-racism advocates, drawing public attention to what they view a discriminatory, oppressive or insensitive words or conduct. Calling-Out has become increasingly frequent,[Read More…]
Stereotypes about Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Jonathan Brown)
Jonathan Andrew Cleveland Brown (born 1977) is an American scholar of Islamic studies. Brown was born on August 9, 1977 in Washington, DC. He was raised as an Episcopalian and converted to Islam in 1997.Brown is Sunni and follows the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence.Brown graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2000 from Georgetown[Read More…]
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