Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim

Jonathan A.C. Brown, Ph.D. (2006) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published articles on ḥadīth, Sufism and Arabic lexical theory.

[Brown] has produced an ambitious study that will itself become a canon for the study of the canonization of the Saḥīḥayn and so like them it is worthy of much attention and analysis.Herbert BergThis is an unusual book in many ways, all of them good. Its scope is strikingly broad, it is in conversation with the latest scholarship both in the field of specialization and also in the wider world of theory, and it is well-written. While one may disagree with some of Brown’s specific and general conclusions, this book deserves to be read for many years to come.Jonathan E. Brockopp, Islamic Law and Society, 2010“This study abandons the conventional genre to which the Orientalists, who have explored the prophetic tradition, have accustomed us: it really brings something new. […] this book deserves to be consulted for a good number of years to come.”Michel Lagarde in Islamochristiana 37 (2011), p.306-307.