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Jonathan A. C. Brown
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “american muslim scholar who teaches at the university of washington”. Today it says “american scholar of islamic studies”.
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Jonathan Andrew Cleveland Brown (born 1977) is an American scholar of Islamic studies .1 Since 2012, he has been associate professor at Georgetown University 's Edmund A.2 Walsh School of Foreign Service . He has authored several books including Slavery and Islam, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy , Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World , Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction , and The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim .3
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american muslim scholar who teaches at the university of washington
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american scholar of islamic studies
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