asSalaam ‘alaykum wa Rahamtullah,
This is an interesting talk delivered at MIT by University of Washington NELC Assistant Professor Jonathan Brown on Hadith Collections and Criticism. Professor Brown recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago where his studies focused on the history of Islam, Islamic law, Qur’an and hadith, Islamic historiography, and hermeneutic traditions in Islam. His dissertation is entitled “The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon.”
The lecture series was hosted by the MIT Muslim Students’ Assocation and held on November 18, 2006.
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Salaam Alaykum Wa’Rahmat’Ullaah,
This is an excellent lecture series, that’s why I am so glad I’m at Arees. This really makes one want to study hadith sciences at an academic level.
Jazzak Allaahu Khairan!
wow he looks young..
wa’alaykum as Salaam wa Rahamtullah
yes it si pretty good, hearign abotu the hadith criticisms from soemoen who spent his time at these institutions of western thought and actually met the people who criticise hadith in such a manner.
he is really young, or looks real young. Masha’Allah.
i am looking forward to reading his thesis on the “Canonization of Bukhari and Msulim”
As salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullaah
MashaAllah, that’s excellent! Just wondering, is he Muslim?
p.s. Just kidding, his first few words showed that he is Muslim :D MashaAllah tabaarak Allah.
Mashallah…very interesting akhi…
JazakallahKhair for this post…
May Allah (awj) make it of benefit, ameen!
Watch, all the sisters are going to come after him…remember mujahideen ryder’s logic?
i think he is kind of cute…lol…j/k
@ Danish–Don’t be silly! He has forwarded Khalil and I a few of his journal publications. This brother is heavy, Ma sha Allah!
“i think he is kind of cute…lol…j/k….”
Danish: nice sentiment….!!! LOL
:)
insha’Allah I need to get my hands on thsoe journal articles from khalil…..I can’t wait…I mentioned Dr. Brown to Khalil the night after I watched these videos and he called me up the next to ask where he teaches. I got this from Adnan a long time ago and just put off listening to it until a few days back. I think he is good conference material…like TDC perhaps but I don’t knwo if they would invite him….Amad, Haytham yall there???
Here is his CV and the courses he takes:
http://faculty.washington.edu/brownj9/cv.html
I have his thesis and other stuff – they are available on ProQuest if you have access from school too.
Masha Allah.. Gazaka Allah Khair.
asalamu alaikum
yes, brother jack (as we used to call him) is muslim masha allah. Allah guided him in college while he was at Georgetown for undergrad – just like me, alhamdulilaah. I think he was a sophomore when I was a senior. I remember he would always be studying arabic so diligently in the Copley prayer room when I would go down to pray, masha allah. Anyway, I believe he is married to Tariq al-Suwaidan’s daughter, Maisoon, a nice sister who had transferred to Gtown from GW down the street.
Mashallah great lecture. But he’s not married to Maisoon Al-Suwaidan. They were engaged for a while and the Arab papers (al-Sharq al-Awsat) wrongly reported it as a marriage. So he’s single…
What? i know his fiancee.
alhamdulillah
i met a sister a few months back that took some of his classes at UW. alhamdulillah, He’s awesome in classes as well I hear.
He’s one of a very interesting to group of Muslim academic scholars of Islam. His friend Scott Lucas who is older than him and has done work on hadith and law teaches at Arizona’s NES department. His friend Ovamir Anjum who is a scholar of Islamic political thought and Ibn Taymiyya teaches at the university of Toledo’s Philosophy department.