Living by the Qur’an: Islam scholar Jonathan Brown
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Jonathan Brown is the author of Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy, a book that examines the ways that Islamic scriptures are interpreted in the modern world. Brown is a professor of Islamic studies at Georgetown University and professor of Muslim-Christian Understanding in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.
Could you give me an overview of scripture in the Islamic tradition?
The Abrahamic traditions are all similar structurally. They all have a central written text, and surrounding that text, a variety of secondary scriptures that emerge out of the questions of interpretation.
