Brannon Wheeler is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and of Comparative Religion at the University of Washington, specializing in Islamic Law. He received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 1993 and has taught at Macalester College, Earlham College, Vanderbilt University and Pennsylvania State University. He has published widely, in numerous books and in professional journals, on Islamic Law, Quran, Arabic and Muslim culture. These include contributions to several highly respected Encyclopaedia and Dictionaries, and publications in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Greece, and Russia. He has held a number of visiting positions in Arab and Muslim academic institutions including being a Visiting Scholar at the College of Islamic Law and Islamic Studies, Kuwait University, Senior Research Fellow at the American Center for Oriental Research in Jordan, Regional Senior Fulbright Fellow (Jordan, Egypt, Oman), Research Fellow at the American Institute for Maghreb Studies in Tunisia, Fellow at the Institute for Ismaili Studies in London, Research Scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and Senior Islamicist-in-Residence at the American Research Center in Egypt affiliated with Cairo University and al-Azhar University. Professor Wheeler has received many national and international awards and fellowships for the study of Arabic and Islam. He has given invited lectures at the American Lebanese University in Beirut, Yale University, Yarmouk University in Jordan, Syracuse University, the Kuwait News Agency, the University of Science and Technology in Yemen, Arabic Language Institute of Fes, the University of Pennsylvania, Bard College, and the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He has also been featured on a number of national television and radio programs, and special television programs in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. His experience with Islam and Muslims also includes extended research trips in Uzbekistan, Turkey, Syria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco.
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