Book Talk with Dr. Brannon Wheeler
Animal Sacrifice and the Origins of Islam
Thursday, September 14
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
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Brannon Wheeler teaches the history of religion, Islamic studies, Bible, and Middle East in the history department at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. earned his PhD in Islamic Studies and the History of Religions from the University of Chicago and has taught at Macalester College, Earlham College, Vanderbilt University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Washington. He has been a professor and researcher at a number of institutions in the Middle East and Europe, including the Institute for Muslim World Studies at Sheikh Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, King Fahd Center for Islamic Studies in Saudi Arabia, College of Shariah and Islamic Studies at Kuwait University, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Royal Center for Interfaith Studies in Jordan, American Center for Research in Egypt, American University of Beirut, and the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs in Oman. He has published eleven books including Animal sacrifice and the origins of Islam (Cambridge, 2020) and Mecca and Eden: Ritual, relics and territory in Islam (Chicago, 2006). He is currently doing research on sacred objects with special attention to the Black Stone in Mecca and other objects that are supposed to be touched.
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