Biography - Brannon Wheeler

EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1993.
Pitzer College, B.A. with honors in History and Religion, 1983-1987.

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS
American Centers for Oriental Research Senior CAORC Fellowship, Amman, Jordan, 2003-2004.
Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship for Jordan, Egypt, Oman, 2003-2004.
Institute for Ismaili Studies Fellowship, London, UK, June-December 2003.
American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship and Senior Islamicist-in-Residence Fellowship, Cairo, Egypt, March-September 2000.
American Institute of Maghreb Studies, Research Grant, Tunisia, Spring 2000.
Gown International Travel Grant, University of Washington, for Islamic Studies Symposium, Kyoto University, Japan, October 1999.
Faculty Collaboration Grant, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, 1998-2000.
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, Pomona College, Summer 1987.
Honors received for B.A. Thesis, "The Sacred in Human History: A Comparison of Nestorian Christianity and Hekhalot Judaism." May 1987.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Professor of History, United States Naval Academy, 2008-Present.
Visiting Professor, American University of Kuwait, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011.
Visiting Distinguished Professor of History and Politics, United States Naval Academy, 2005-2008.
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington, 2001-2005.
Senior CAORC Fellow, American Centers for Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan, 2003-2004.
Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, Royal Institute for Inter-faith Studies, Amman, Jordan, 2004.
Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, 2004.
Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs, Muscat, Oman, 2004.
Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, University of Bergen, 2005.
Fellow, Institute for Ismaili Studies, London, UK, June-December 2003.
Visiting Scholar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford University, June-December 2003.
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington, 1996-2001.
Senior Islamicist-in-Residence, American Research Center in Egypt, 2000.
American Institute of Maghreb Studies, Tunisia, 2000.
Visiting Scholar in the College of Shariah and Islamic Studies, Kuwait University, 1996-1997.
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, University of Chicago, 1991.
Instructor, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1990-1991.

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Prophets in the Quran: An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis. London and New York: Continuum International Publications, 2002.
Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis. Quranic Studies Series. London: Routledge/Curzon Press, 2002.
Historical Dictionary of Prophets in Islam and Judaism. With Scott Noegel. London: Scarecrow Press, 2002.
Applying the Canon in Islam: The Authorization and Maintenance of Interpretive Reasoning in Hanafi Scholarship. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

EDITED VOLUMES
(with Abdulrahman al-Salimi). Community, State, History and Changes: Festschrift for Prof. Ridwan al-Sayyid on his Sixtieth Birthday. Beirut: al-Shabkah al-Arabiyah li-Abhath wa al-Nashr, 2011.
Prayer, Magic, and the Stars. Edited volume with Scott Noegel and Joel Walker. History of Magic Series. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.
Teaching Islam. Edited volume, American Academy of Religion Teaching Religions Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

JOURNALS
The Madhhab. Guest Editor, Special volume of Islamic Law and Society 10 (2003).
Comparative Islamic Studies, Editor, 2005-Present.
Al-Tasamoh, Guest Editor, English edition, 2006.

ARTICLES
"Legal Reasoning in Ibadi Fiqh Scholarship." In Fred Donner Festschrift. Ed. Paul Cobb (forthcoming).
"Quran and Muslim Exegesis as a Source for the History of the Ancient Near East." In Bridging Judaism and Islam (Tel Aviv: Bar-Ilan University, forthcoming).
"Gift of the Body in Islam: The Prophet Muhammad's Camel Sacrifice and Distribution of Hair and Nails at his Farewell Pilgrimage." Numen 57 (2010): 341-388.
"al-Tasamah fi al-Qanun al-Islami wa Tadbiqatu-hu" [Tolerance in Islamic Law and Practice]. al-Tasamah 18 (1428/2007): 225-239.
"'Alaqat al-Maqasid bi-l-Adillah wa al-Qawa'id: Dirasat Muqaranah" [Connection of the Goals of Islamic Law with its Indications and Foundations: Comparative Studies]. Nadwah Tatawur al-'Ulum al-Fiqhiyyah fi Oman: al-Fiqh al-Umani wa al-Maqasid al-Shariah. Ed. al-Hajj Sulayman b. Ibrahim Babziz al-Warijlani (Muscat: Wizarat al-Awqaf wa al-Shi'un al-Diniyyah, 2007): 245-280.
"Arab Prophets of the Quran and Bible." Journal of Quranic Studies 8.2 (2006): 24-57.
"Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, United States Naval Academy," American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 24 (2007): 133-142.
"Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis." In Blackwell Companion to the Quran. Ed. Andrew Rippin (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 248-265.
"Dirasat al-Din al-Muqarin wa Usul al-Mujtama‘ al-Madani [Comparative Study of Religion and the Roots of Religious Pluralism]." al-Tasamah 8 (Winter 1425/2005): 66-75.
"Arab Prophets and the Tombs of Giants." Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 6.2 (2006): 39-61.
Food of Israel and Q 3:90." In Food and Judaism. Ed. Leonard J. Greenspoon. Studies in Jewish Civilization 15 Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2005).
"al-Anbiya' al-'Arab wa Qubur al-Jababirah [Arab Prophets and the Tombs of Giants]." 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 13 (April 2004): 107-112.
"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.
"Israel and the Torah of Muhammad." In Quran and Bible. Ed. John Reeves. SBL series. Scholars Press, 2003.
"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 (New York and London: Kegan Paul International, 2000), 1-36.
"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 Israel from Biblical to Modern Times. Ed. Leonard J. Greenspoon and Ronald A. Simkins. Studies in Jewish Civilization 11 (Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2001), 49-84.
"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. AAR Teaching Religions Series. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
"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 (Kuwait, 1997): 124-143.
"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 Reading: Charles Hamilton versus Claude Levi-Strauss." Critique 5 (1994): 9-30.
"Tradition in History: Imagining the Sasanian Capture of Jerusalem." Orientalia Christiana Periodica 57.1 (1991): 69-85.

ENCYCLOPEDIA AND DICTIONARY ENTRIES
"Moses." In Oxford Bibliographies Online (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
"Moses." In Persian Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam (Tehran, forthcoming).
"Abu Yusuf." In Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3d ed. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, forthcoming).
"Prophet's Hair." In Encyclopedia of Sacred Sites and Religious Icons (New York: Facts on File, forthcoming).
"Mecca." In Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage. Ed. Larissa J. Taylor and others (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010), 394-395.
"Rukn al-Din al-Amidi." In Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3d ed. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008), 2:84-85.
"Azar." In Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3d ed. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008), 1:155-156.
"Animals in Islamic Law." In Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3d ed. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008), 1:144-148.
"Body in Islam." In Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions. Ed. Yudith Kornberg Greenberg (New York: ABC-CLIO, 2008), 1:96-98.
"Genital Contact in Islamic Law." In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship and Sexuality Through History: The Medieval Era. Ed. William Burns (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008), 80-81.
"Representations: Quran." In Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Culture (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007), 5:529-532.
"Alexander." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, ed. Josef Meri (London: Routledge, 2006), 1:29-30, 2:517.
"Moses." In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, ed. Josef Meri (London: Routledge, 2006), 2:517.
"Study of Religion in Middle East and North Africa." In Encyclopedia of Religion, 2d edition (New York: Macmillan, 2005), 13:8780-8784.
"Ummah." In Encyclopedia of Religion, 2d edition (New York: Macmillan, 2005), 14:9446-9448.
"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 (London: Routledge, 2005).
"Mandub," "Illah," "Intention," "Kasb," "Ghusl," "Ikhtilaf al-Fiqh," "Darura," "Asaba," "Asbab al-Nuzul," "Baligh." In Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Ed. John Esposito (Oxford University Press, 2003).
"Prophets," "Abu Hanifah," "Madhhab," and "Body." In Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Ed. Richard Martin and others (New York: Macmillan, 2003).
"Good Deeds." In Encyclopaedia of the Quran. Ed. Jane McAuliffe (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003), 2:339-340.
"Good and Evil." In Encyclopaedia of the Quran. Ed. Jane McAuliffe (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003), 2:335-339.
"Evil Deeds." In Encyclopaedia of the Quran. Ed. Jane McAuliffe (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003), 2:98-99.
"Pledge." In Encyclopaedia of the Quran. Ed. Jane McAuliffe (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003).
"Iamblichus," "Nicolaus of Damascus," "Theodore of Mopsuestia," "Julius Africanus," "Quintus Curtius Rufus," "Zenobia." In The Ancient World. Ed. Andrew Traver, Volume one of Interdisciplinary Biographical Dictionaries Series (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001).
"Breaking Trusts and Contracts." In Encyclopaedia of the Quran. Ed. Jane McAuliffe (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001), 1:256-258.
"Consultation" (translation with Ahmad Mubarak al-Baghdadi). In Encyclopaedia of the Quran. Ed. Jane McAuliffe (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001), 1:406-410.
"Islam." In Encyclopedia of American Studies. Ed. Thomas McCarthy and others (New York: Grolier Press, 2000).


ACADEMIC SERVICE AND CONSULTING
Director of Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, United States Naval Academy, 2005-Present.
Advisory Board, Journal of Shi'a Studies, 2010-.
Advisory Board, Journal of al-Tamaddun (Malaysia), 2008-2010.
Editorial Board, Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Asia, 2008-Present.
Editorial Board, Judaism and Islam in Medieval and Modern Times. Ed. Michael Laskier and Yaacov Lev (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, forthcoming).
Editorial Board, Routledge Encyclopedia of the Quran. Ed. Oliver Leaman (London: Routledge, 2005).
Chair of Comparative Religion, University of Washington, 2001-2003.
B.A. Program Review, Department of Religion, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, September 2005.
M.A. Program Review, Higher Education Coordinating Board, Olympia, Washington, June 2004.
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, 1997-2003. Equinox Publishers, 2003-Present.
Editor, Journal of Comparative Islamic Studies, 2003-Present.
Associate Editor, Bulletin of Middle East Studies Association, 2004-2007.
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, American Academy of Religion, 2003.
Reviewer, Fritz Travel Grants, Graduate School, University of Washington, 2002.
Council member, Faculty Council on Instructional Quality, University of Washington, 1998-2001.
Juror, American Academy of Religion, Historical Studies, Book Award Committee, 1997-2000.
Instructor, Arabic Language, K-5 grades, Captain Blakely Elementary School, Bainbridge Island, Winter and Spring Quarters 1999.