Jonathan Andrew Cleveland Brown,[1] born August 7, 1977, is a university academic and American scholar of Islamic studies.

Jonathan is married to Laila Al-Arian, an American broadcast journalist for the Al Jazeera Media Network.

After serving as an assistant professor he was granted tenure again in 2012, teaching Islamic Studies and Muslim-Christian Understanding in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

[13] In his book Misquoting Muhammad, Brown argues that the “depth and breadth” of the early Muslim scholars’ achievement in assessing the authenticity of sayings and texts “dwarfed” that of the fathers of the Christian church.

Brown wrote that the current understanding of "slavery" is defined primarily in terms of legal ownership and violations of autonomy.

"[23][26] In a subsequent essay and interview Brown elaborated his views and apologized for having addressed the subject too cerebrally, adding that members of the alt-right had bombarded him and his family with threats of death and rape over the controversy.