Brannon Wheeler

Brannon Wheeler is the founding director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, where he is also a professor of history. He is the author and editor of nine books in Islamic Studies and the history of religions, including Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics and Territory in Islam (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Prophets in the Quran: An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis (Continuum, 2002), and Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis (Routledge, 2009).