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Prof.
Brannon
Wheeler is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative
Religion at the University of Washington, specializing in Islamic Law and
Quranic Studies, and Comparative Religion. 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. Currently, Professor
Wheeler is a Senior Fellow of the Councils for the American Centers for
Oriental Research in Amman Jordan, and Senior Fulbright Research Fellow
for Jordan, Egypt, and
Saudi Arabia for 2004.
Last
fall, he was a Fellow at the Institute for Ismaili Studies in London and a
Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in the U.K.
Professor Wheeler has published widely, in numerous books and in
professional journals, on Islamic Law, the Quran, Arabic and Muslim
culture.
These
include contributions to a number of Encyclopaedias 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, Research Fellow at the
American Institute for Maghreb Studies in Tunisia, Research Scholar at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 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,
Tashkent Islam University in Uzbekistan, University of Bristol, Syracuse
University, the Kuwait News Agency, School of Oriental and African Studies
at the University of London, 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
Turkey, Syria, Uzbekistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Palestine, Lebanon,
Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Yemen,
Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco.
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