Theme: Speak Always the Truth: The Tough Choice over Values in Our American Muslim Community

Key Note Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Brown

Jonathan AC Brown is Assistant Professor ofArabic andIslamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington in Seattle. 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. 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)

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