Misquoting Muhammad

The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy

By: Jonathan A.C. Brown

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Sometimes rumor, sometimes based on fact and often misunderstood, the tenets of Islamic law and dogma were not set in the religion's founding moments. They were developed, like in other world religions, over centuries by the clerical class of Muslim scholars.

Misquoting Muhammad takes listeners back in time through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such controversies developed, offering an inside view into how key and controversial aspects of Islam took shape. Misquoting Muhammad lays out how Muslim intellectuals have sought to balance reason and revelation, weigh science and religion, and negotiate the eternal truths of scripture amid shifting values.

©2014 Jonathan A. C. Brown (P)2017 Tantor

Well researched

The book reflects deep understanding of the nuances of Arabic language and Islamic history and scripture. Well written and adequately researched.
Narrator could have benefited from more preparation and practice of pronunciation of Arabic names.

Very Thoughtful and Honest

Religion is central to so many lives, yet people rarely explore the authenticity of the traditions they hold so dear. This book is a wonderful work on authenticity in Islam. It helped expand my horizons and put me on the path to a deeper, more progressive, more inclusive understanding of God’s universe.

The First and Best American MuHadith . . . Ameen

Dr Brown is the first non Orientalist and or native born Middle-easterner that has broken the “spell”, the myth propagandized by Western Muslims and Eastern Muslims that only native Al Arabiyyi speakers can be “authentic” Hadith Scholars in the Arab-Ulema- sense of the term. Muslim Arab believe superstitiously that only they can be a Mujtahid and not non Arabs.

A research of great value.

I'm gonna be honest. It's not the casual easy read. Mr brown digs in too deep and doesn't spare the details. Sometimes it's not gonna be easy to get by the chapter. But that's what a research of great value is like. In the end you are left with immense satisfaction with what you have learned and a feeling that every bit was worth it. Thank you Mr. Brown for the great effort.

As for Paul (The performer) he did really well but his Arabic was often times not recognizable. I kept repeating parts trying to figure out what the word he's trying to say is.

Great work overall.

Great book! Narrator is Ok

The book is eye-opening. It outlines the evolution of Islamic thought, in both jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Hadith.

The narrator, though was good, doesn't speak Arabic. there are many Arabic terms that he couldn't pronounce. It would have been better to have someone who could speak Arabic.