Jonathan Brown - Reframing the Gender Question: Keeping Masculinity from Trending Toxic

Jonathan BrownSeptember 13, 20190 comments

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Hadith Social Issues Masculinity Seerah Marriage Family Muslim Identity Gender

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In this lecture, Dr. Jonathan Brown challenges Muslim communities to resist being pulled into the liberal-conservative political polarization when it comes to questions of gender and family. Drawing on authentic hadith and the example of the Prophet ﷺ and his companions, he argues that the Prophetic model of manhood — one of service, compassion, justice, and strength — is the antidote to both toxic masculinity and progressive gender erasure. He concludes by calling on Muslims to offer this balanced, Quranic model as a gift to a deeply confused society.

Jonathan AC Brown is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He received his BA in History from Georgetown University in 2000 and his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2006. Dr. Brown has studied and conducted research in Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Indonesia and Iran, and he is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His book publications include The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon (Brill, 2007), Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (Oneworld, 2009) and Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011). He has published articles in the fields of Hadith, Islamic law, Sufism, Arabic lexical theory and Pre-Islamic poetry and is the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islamic Law. Dr. Brown’s current research interests include the history of forgery and historical criticism in Islamic civilization, comparison with the Western tradition; and modern conflicts between Late Sunni Traditionalism and Salafism in Islamic thought.

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