Brannon Wheeler teaches the history of religions, including studying the Bible, the Middle East, and Islamic studies at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.

He is the author of Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis (Routledge, 2002), Teaching Islam (Oxford, 2002), and Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam (Chicago, 2006).

He is currently visiting scholar at the Royal Institute for Interreligious Studies in Jordan and the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Saudi Arabia where he conducts research on ritualized violence and the origins of religion.