Brannon M. Wheeler
bwheeler@usna.edu
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
United States Naval Academy
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS,
Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship for
Institute for Ismaili Studies Fellowship,
American
Gown International Travel Grant,
Faculty Collaboration Grant,
National Resources (Title VI) Fellowship for Arabic language study, 1990-1991.
National Resources (Title VI) Fellowship for Arabic language study, 1989-1990.
Century Scholarship for graduate study, University of
Chicago, 1988-1989.
National Resources (Title VI) Fellowship for Arabic language study, 1987-1988.
National Endowment for the Humanities Junior Scholar Fellowship, with Carl
Ernst, Associate Professor of Religion,
Honors received for B.A. Thesis, "The Sacred in Human History: A
Comparison of Nestorian Christianity and Hekhalot
Judaism." May 1987.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Visiting Distinguished Professor of History and
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilization, University of Washington, 2001-2005.
Senior CAORC Fellow,
Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, Royal Institute for
Inter-faith Studies,
Senior Fulbright Research Fellow,
Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs,
Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Middle East and
Islamic Studies,
Fellow, Institute for Ismaili Studies,
Visiting Scholar,
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilization, University of Washington, 1996-2001.
Senior Islamicist-in-Residence,
Visiting Scholar in the
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and History,
Pennsylvania State University, 1995-1996.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt
University, 1993-1995.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Earlham College,
1992-1993.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Macalester College, 1991-1992.
Instructor, Office of Continuing Education,
Instructor, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago,
1990-1991.
ACADEMIC SERVICE AND CONSULTING
Director of Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, United States Naval
Academy, 2005-Present.
Chair of Comparative Religion, University of Washington,
2001-2003.
B.A. Program Review, Department of Religion,
M.A. Program Review, Higher Education Coordinating Board,
Chair, Comparative Religion Program, University of
Washington, 2001-2003.
Director, Comparative Islamic Studies Program, University of
Washington, 1998-2003.
Editor, Comparative Islamic Studies series, Continuum International Publishers
and Equinox Publishers, 1997-Present.
Editor, Journal of Comparative Islamic Studies, 2003-Present.
Associate Editor, Bulletin of Middle East Studies Association, 2004-Present.
Chair, Quran and Biblical Literature Consultation,
Society of Biblical Literature, 2003-2006.
Editor, Islam, Religious Studies Review, 1995-2003.
Co-Chair, Relics and Territory Consultation,
Reviewer, Fritz Travel Grants,
Council member, Faculty Council on Instructional Quality, University
of Washington, 1998-2001.
Juror,
Instructor, Arabic Language, K-5 grades, Captain Blakely Elementary School,
Bainbridge Island, Winter and Spring Quarters 1999.
PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS
Promotion and Tenure (2001, 2002, 2004, 2004, 2004, 2005, 2005).
Routledge
(2003, 2004).
Longmans (2003).
Teaching Theology and Religion (2004).
Journal of Religion (2003).
History of Religions (2002).
International Journal of Middle East Studies (2000).
Islamic Law and Society (1998, 2002, 2003, 2004).
LEGAL CONSULTING
Religious Discrimination, Akiyama et al v. U.S. Judo Inc. et al, Fleming Law
Office,
Marriage and Inheritance, Ann J. Durham,
Arabic Translation,
Child Custody, Attorney General of
Asylum (
Asylum (
Religious Discrimination, Cook v. Cochran, Garvey, Schubert and Barer,
Asylum (
Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence Unit, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney,
King County, Washington, May 2001.
Arabic Translation, Bander, June 2001. Asylum (
Asylum (
Asylum (
Criminal Law, MacDonald, Hoague,
and Bayless,
Asylum (
Criminal/First Amendment, Heller Ehrman White and
McAuliffe,
Criminal/First Amendment, Attorney General of
Immigration (
Child Custody, Attorney General of
Criminal/First Amendment, Attorney General of
Criminal/First
Amendment, Attorney General of
Criminal/First Amendment, Attorney General of
Criminal/First Amendment, Attorney General of
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
Applying the Canon in
Islam: The Authorization and Maintenance of Interpretive Reasoning in Hanafi Scholarship.
Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis. Quranic Studies
Series.
Teaching Islam. Edited volume,
Prophets in the Quran:
An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis.
Historical Dictionary of
Prophets in Islam and Judaism. With Scott Noegel.
Prayer, Magic, and the
Stars. Edited volume with Scott Noegel and Joel Walker. History of
Magic Series.
The Madhhab. Guest Editor, Special volume of
Islamic Law and Society 10 (2003).
Historical Dictionary of
the
ARTICLES
"Dirasat al-Din al-Muqarin
wa Usul al-Mujtama‘
al-Madani." al-Tasamah 8 (Winter 1425/2005): 66-75.
"Arab Prophets and the
Tombs of Giants." Bulletin of the Royal
Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (2006), forthcoming.
"al-Anbiya'
al-'Arab wa Qubur al-Jababirah." al-Nashra
30 (Spring 2004): 19-23.
"Touching the Penis in
Islamic Law." History of
Religions 44 (2004): 89-119.
"Relics of the Prophet
Muhammad." Islamica (April
2004), forthcoming.
"Identity in the Margins: Unpublished Hanafi Commentaries on the Mukhtasar
of Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Quduri." Islamic Law and Society 10 (2003).
"The Prophet Muhammad Dhu
al-Qarnayn: His Journey to the Cities at the Ends of
the Earth." Byzantino-rossica 2 (2003):
179-219.
"
"Food of
"The 'New Torah': Some Early Islamic
Views of the Quran and other Revealed Books." Graeco-Arabica 7-8 (1999-2000): 371-604.
"From Dar al-Hijra
to Dar al-Islam: The Islamic Utopia." In The Concept
of Territory in Islamic Law and Thought. Ed. Yanagihashi
Hiroyuki, Islamic Area Studies 2 (
"Transmission of Muslim Knowledge: Past
Traditions and New Technologies." In Proceedings of
Islamic World Information Sources Symposium. Riyad:
King Abdulaziz Public Library, 1999.
"'The land in which you have lived': Inheritence of the Promised Land in Classical Islamic
Exegesis." In "A Land Flowing With Milk and Honey": Visions
of
"What Can't be
Left Out? The Fundamentals of Teaching the Introduction to
Islam Course." In Teaching Islam as a Religion.
Ed. Brannon Wheeler, 3-21.
"Integrating Islamic
Studies into Liberal Arts Curricula." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 15.2 (1998): 159-166.
"Authoritative Texts and Their
Interpretations in Islam: The Study of Religion and Islamic Law." Critical Review of Books in Religion. Ed. Charles Prebish (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998): 105-120.
"Moses or Alexander? Q 18:60-65 in Early Islamic Exegesis." Journal
of Near Eastern Studies 57.3 (1998): 191-215.
"The Jewish origins of Q 18:65-82? Reexamination of A.J. Wensinck's Theory."
Journal of the American Oriental Society 118.2 (1998): 153-171.
"al-'Aql fi ikhtilaf
al-fuqaha' 'ala takhrij ahkam al-shari'ah min usuli-ha [Reason in the Conflict of Opinion among the
Jurists over Extracting the Legal Rulings of the Shariah
from its Sources]." Ashab al-Qalam (
"Mathaf
Tareq Rajab," al-Usur
al-Wusta (December 1997).
"Ahmad Mubarak al-Baghdadi," al-Usur
al-Wusta (April 1997).
"Ernest Gellner, Postmodernism, Reason and Religion." Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
(1995): 72-81.
"Orientalist
Translation and Anthropological
"Tradition in History: Imagining the Sasanian Capture of
ENCYCLOPEDIA AND DICTIONARY
ENTRIES
"Study of Religion in Middle East and
"Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis." In Blackwell Companion to the Quran. Ed. Andrew Rippin
(
"Ummah." In Encyclopedia of Religion, 2d edition (
"Gender in the Quran." In
Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Culture (
"Prophets,"
"Abu Hanifah," "Madhhab,"
and "Body." In Encyclopedia
of Islam and the Muslim World, ed. Richard Martin (
"Alexander," "Moses." In Medieval
Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, ed. Josef Meri (
"Ad," "Adam," "Asbat," "Ayyub,"
"Dawud," "Dhu
al-Kifl," "Dhu
al-Qarnayn," "Harun,"
"Hud," "Ibrahim,"
"Idris," "Ismail,"
"Israiliyyat," "Jalut,"
"Lut," "Musa,"
"Nuh," "Qaf,"
"Salih," "Sulayman,"
"Tabut," "Talut,"
"Tubba," "'Uzayr,"
"Yaqub," "Yajuj
wa Majuj," "Yunus," "Yusuf." In Routledge Encyclopedia of
the Quran. Ed. Oliver Leaman
(
"Breaking Trusts and
Contracts." In
Encyclopaedia of the Quran.
Ed. Jane McAuliffe (
"Consultation"
(translation with Ahmad Mubarak al-Baghdadi). In Encyclopaedia
of the Quran. Ed. Jane McAuliffe (
"Good Deeds." In Encyclopaedia of the Quran.
Ed. Jane McAuliffe (
"Good and Evil." In
Encyclopaedia of the Quran.
Ed. Jane McAuliffe (
"Evil Deeds." In Encyclopaedia
of the Quran. Ed. Jane McAuliffe (
"Pledge." In Encyclopaedia
of the Quran. Ed. Jane McAuliffe (
"Iamblichus,"
"Nicolaus of
"Islam." In Encyclopedia of American
Studies. Ed. Thomas McCarthy and others (
"Mandub,"
"Illah," "Intention," "Kasb," "Ghusl,"
"Ikhtilaf al-Fiqh,"
"Darura," "Asaba,"
"Asbab al-Nuzul,"
"Baligh." In
CONFERENCE PAPERS
"Historicity of the Quran in Account of Arab
Prophets."
"Arab Prophets Outside
of the Quran." Annual meeting of the Society of
Biblical Literature, Quran and Biblical Literature
Consultation,
"Arabian
Prophets." Colloquium on the
Late Antique Roots of the Quranic Concept of
Prophets, Institute for Advanced Studies,
"al-Kalimitan 'msgd' wa 'nsb'
fi al-'Ahd al-Qadim wa al-Quran
al-Karim [The Terms 'msgd'
and 'nsb' in the Bible and the Quran]."
Mustajadat Maydaniyah fi Haql al-Nuqush
wa Kitabat
al-Sharq al-Adna al-Qadim [New Findings in the Field of Inscriptions and
Writings from the Ancient Near East]. College of Archaeology and Anthropology,
"Arab Prophets in the Quran and Bible." Annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature,
Quran and Biblical Literature Consultation,
"The Treasure of the Ka'bah:
Relics and Territory in Islam." Annual meeting of the
"Moses and Other
Figures in Islam." Annual meeting of the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins,
"Purity and Utopia: Islamic Legal Views
of Asceticism." Fourth International Islamic Legal Studies Conference,
"Food of the Book or
Food of
"Touching the Penis:
Ritual Impurity and Contagion in Islamic Law." Middle East Studies Association,
"Stereotypes in Islamic Law: Ritual as a
Mechanism of Authorization." Arab Stereotyping
Conference,
"Biblical
"Transmission of Muslim Knowledge: Past
Traditions and New Technologies." Islamic World Information Sources
Symposium, King Abd al-Aziz
Library, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, October-November 1999.
"The Islamic Utopia:
from Dar al-Hijra to Dar al-Islam." Islamic Area Studies Symposium: Beyond the Border,
University of
"Islam on the
Internet." Roundtable
Participant, Middle East Studies Association annual meeting,
"Three ways of making a sacred text: Some
views of the Quran in classical Islamic
scholarship." Comparative Religion Program Colloquium on Canons and
Canonicity,
"Women in the Bible and
Quran." The Thread that Binds: Woven into One Cloth...A Women's Symposium,
Hadassah Women's Organization,
"Classical roots of contemporary Islamist
discourse: Islam and political change." Third International Conference on
Communication and Cross-cultural Understanding, Ibn Zuhr University,
"What Can't be
Left Out: The Essentials of Teaching the Introduction to Islam Course."
Organizer and presenter on "Teaching Islam" panel at the annual
meeting of the
"Local authorities, Kufans,
and Hanafis: The Conflict of Opinions in al-Dabusi's Ta'sis al-nazar." Presented at the annual meeting of the
American Oriental Society,
"'Find us a king so that we might fight
for God': The Islamic Concept of Divinely Sanctioned Violence in Q
2:246-251." Presented at the annual Peace Studies
meeting,
"Ritual Construction of Sovereignty:
Classical Islamic Theories of Territory." Presented at the annual meeting
of the International Studies Society,
"Moses at Jacob's well: Q 28:21-28 in
Comparative Perspective." Presented at the annual meeting of the
"Teaching Islam as a
Religion." Organizer, Chair
and participant, workshop, at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies
Association, Washington, D.C., December 1995.
"Sex, Corpses, and Food: Comparing
Judaism in the Introductory Course." Presented at the
annual meeting of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, October 1994.
"al-Quduri
al-Usuli." Presented at the
annual meeting of the American Oriental Society, Madison, March 1994.
"Interpretation of Conflict: Pedagogic
use of Hanafi Shuruh,"
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and Society
of Biblical Literature, Chicago, November 1994.
"Back to the Past: Islam and the Study of
Religion." Presented at a Roundtable Session of the
annual meeting of
"Dual Revelation in
Sunni Islam." Presented at the annual meeting of the
"Another Civility: Charles Hamilton's Hidayah to Warren Hastings." Presented in the South
Asia and Middle East graduate workshop,
"From Socrates to Moses: Individual and
Community in the Defense of the Necessity of Tradition according to the Kitab al-radd wa al-dalil fi al-din al-dhalil." Presented at the sixth annual conference of the Middle East History
and Theory Ensemble, April 1991.
"Arabian Camel (goat„sheep)2 = 3 Bactrian Camels/Ăbuffalo„cow:
The Values of Islamic Animals." Presented at the twenty-fifth annual
conference of the Middle East Studies Association,
"Reading Inside Out: Magic, Cosmologies,
and Comparisons" Presented in the History and Structure of Buddhism
seminar,
"People of the Book: The Elchasaites and Social Identification in Late
Antiquity." Presented at the Midwest Middle East
Teachers' Consortium in conjunction with the fourth annual conference of the
Middle East History and Theory Ensemble, May 1989.
"Tradition in History: Imagining the Sasanian Capture of
INVITED LECTURES
"The Sacred and Profane in Islamic Law and State Ideology." Center
for Middle East and Islamic Studies,
"Myth, Ritual, and
State Ideololgy in Islam."
"Religious Myth and
State Ideology in Islam."
"Relics, Tombs, and
Ritual in Islam."
"al-Nabuwah
fi al-‘Arab." Institute for Islamic
Sciences, Grand Mosque,
"al-Anbiya'
al-'Arab wa Qubur al-Jababirah."
"Tombs of Arab
Prophets." CAORC Senior Fellow
Lecture,
"Arab Prophets and the
Tombs of Giants." Royal
Institute for Inter-Faith Studies and Jordan Institute for Diplomacy,
"Arab Prophets of the Quran and Bible."
"Relics of the Prophet
Muhammad."
"Treasure of the Ka'ba and the Swords of the Prophet Muhammad."
"Islam and the Study of
Islam in
"'The Well Marks the Spot': Buried
Treasure and the Prophet Muhammad." Comparative Religion Colloquium,
"Moses and the Torah of
Muhammad."
"The Desert
"Eating Camel and Breaking the Sabbath:
The Early Islamic Exegesis of Q 3:93." Canons and Canonicity Colloquium,
"Remains of the
Prophet: the Dar al-Islam in Classical and Contemporary Islamic Thought."
"The Prophet Remains: Relics and
Territory in Classical Islam."
"
"al-'Aql fi ikhtilaf
al-fuqaha' 'ala takhrij ahkam al-shari'ah min usuli-ha [Reason in the Conflict of Opinion among the
Jurists over Extracting the Legal Rulings of the Shariah
from its Sources]." Ashab al-Qalam Group, Hawally,
"al-Taknawlawjiah
al-jadidah wa isti'malu-ha bi-al-Islamiyin fi al-Kuwait [New Technology and its Use by the Islamists
in
"Taknawlawjiah
al-muwasalat al-jadidah wa difa'
al-akhlaq al-Islamiyah [New
Communications Technology and the Defense of Islamic Values]."
"al-Dirasat
al-Islamiyah fi al-Wilayat al-Mutahidah [Islamic
Studies in the
"
"Contemporary Kuwaiti
Society." Arabic Language
Institute of Fes,
"The New Torah: Canonical Status of the Qur'an and other Revealed Books in Early Islam."
"'This is the Torah that God sent down to Moses:' Some Early
Islamic Views of the Qur'an and other Revealed
Books."
"Moses or Alexander? Q 18:60-82."
"The Ritual Polity: Territory in
Classical Islamic Theory."
"Religion as Popular Culture: Covers,
Sega, and the Simpsons."
"Cultural Diversity of
Islam." Honors Program,
"Ritual Myth and Mythical Ritual: A Comparison
of Islam and Judaism."
"Graduate Work and
Teaching." The Teaching
Program,
"Muslim Mind." Humanities' Day,
TELEVISION AND RADIO
"One God, Three Religions."
"Masadir al-ma'lumat
'an al-'alam al-Islami
[Sources of Information on the Islamic World]." IQRA
"Ramadan and the Gulf War." KVI Radio, AM 570,
"Islam wa dirasatu-hu
fi al-Wilayat al-Mutahidah [Islam and Its Study in the
"Islamic Fundamentalism." WSMU
television,
"Israeli/PLO Peace Settlement." WSMU Radio,
"Contemplative Life."
"Friday the Thirteenth." Straight
to the Point, KSTP,
COMMUNITY SERVICE
"Dirasat al-Islamiyyah
wa al-Diniyya fi al-Wilayat al-Mutahidah [Islamic Studies and Religious Studies in the
"Islamic
Resurgence."
"Prophets in the Quran."
Book
"Basics of Islam."
"One God, Three
Religions."
"Understanding
Islam."
"Jonestown and NY City: Are Religious
Extremists Ordinary Human Beings?"
"Quran
and Bible."
"Islam and Judaism,"
"Classical Roots of
Islam." American Association
of University Women,
"Myth and Ritual."
"Islamic
Fundamentalism."
BOOK REVIEWS
Comparative Literature Studies (2004).
Journal of Arabic Literature (1999, 2004).
Quaderni di Studi Arabi (2004).
International Journal of
Journal of Religion (1992, 1995, 2003).
History of Religions (1997, 2002).
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciencies
(2002).
Journal of Near Eastern Studies (1999, 2000, 2002).
al-Usur al-Wusta (1997).
Journal of Church and State 36.4 (1994): 860.
Journal of the
LANGUAGE RESOURCES
Arabic, Syriac, Hebrew
Reading knowledge of academic Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian.
Working knowledge of North Arabic (Thamudic,
Safaitic, Lihyanite, Dedanite, Taymanite, Hassaean), other Aramaic dialects (Official, Biblical, Targumic, Talmudic, Palmyrene, Hatran), Ethiopic (Ge'ez),
Classical Greek, South Arabian Epigraphic, Ugaritic,
and Chinese.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Academy of Religion
American Institute of Maghreb Studies
American Oriental Society
American Research Center in Egypt
Middle East Studies Association
Middle East Medievalists
Society of Biblical Literature
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Washington (1996-2005): Knowledge
and Authority: The social use of texts in the medieval Near East, Advanced
Arabic, Islam, Introduction to the Quran,
Introduction to Western Religions, Prophets in Islam and Judaism, Approaches to
the Study of Religion, Quran and its Interpretation, Ritual
and Legal Texts, Stories of the Prophets, Quran and Bible
Masorah, Scripture in Islam, Ritual and Law in Islam,
Comparative Islamic Studies Seminar, Legends of Alexander the Great, Islamic
Law, Holy Land in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, Islamic Cities, Syriac, North Arabic Inscriptions, Islamic Political
Theories.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Medieval Colloquium, "Legends of Alexander the Great," Winter Quarter
2000.
"Prayer, Magic and the Stars" Symposium,
"Interchange and Exchange in Islamic and Jewish Studies,"
National Endowment for the Humanities, International conference on
"Authority, Communication and Islamic Societies,"
Western Humanities Consortium Conference, "The Pious and the
Profane," Simpson Center for the Humanities, 1998-2000.
"Interchange and Exchange in Islamic and Jewish Studies," Western
Jewish Studies Association,
Workshop on Integrating Islamic Studies into Liberal Arts
Curricula,
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