Salaam Islamic Center cordially invites you to join the weekly conversation about Islam. Jihad Brown – “Embodying Quranic Radiance during Ramadan” JIHAD BROWN is Resident Scholar and Assistant Professor at Bayan Islamic Graduate School. He is a classically trained Muslim scholar of the traditional Islamic disciplines, with a focus on rational theology, jurisprudence, legal hermeneutics, Arabic literature, and Islamic logic. He is an American scholar who has lived, studied, and worked throughout Europe and the Arab world. He completed his degree in Psychology at Rutgers and attained post-graduate degrees in Philosophical Theology and Philosophy of Mind at the University of Cambridge. He would further pursue a rigorous, classical curriculum with prominent Sharīʿah authorities—in Syria and the Minor Atlas Mountains of North Africa—at whose hands he became authorized—with advanced licenses (ijāzāt khāṣṣah)—to teach and pass on these sacred disciplines. As a critical public intellectual, he has appeared on various media outlets, such as BBC and CNN, and continues his work today as an academic consultant and writer on issues pertaining to Islam, Muslim American communities, and the interplay between normative Islamic thought and the contemporary world. May 13, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)