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Jonathan Brown’s Misquoting Mohammed is a detailed study of the Prophet’s legacy and the religious texts of Islam. Summary of the Book The Prophet’s words are difficult to distance from the legacy they have gathered around them. Islam is shrouded by controversy, for many people refuse to distance it from the events which blacken its name. However, in itself, Islam is a wondrous representation of the ideals of religion, and the Prophet’s words are a true testament to what God might have really wanted for mankind. Islam’s history is replete with events which have added to its controversies. In this book, Brown travels back to Islam’s origins, tracing how these controversies originated. His writings take us back to the protests of the Arab Spring, Istanbul at the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the trade routes of Islam’s Indian Ocean world and the ochre red walls of Delhi’s great mosques, relating the story of how Muslim intellectuals have tried to piece together a religion which tied them together from across the world. About Jonathan Brown Jonathan A. C. Brown is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Muslim-Christian Understanding in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He has also written Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction and Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World. Brown is based in Washington DC and he is the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law.