Somewhere Between Islam and Judaism - Critical Reflections - Aaron W. Hughes
6. The Study of Islam in the Age of Trump
Somewhere Between Islam and Judaism - Critical Reflections - Aaron W. Hughes
Aaron W. Hughes [+]
University of Rochester
Aaron W. Hughes is the Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester. His research and publications focus on both Jewish philosophy and Islamic Studies. He has authored numerous books, including Situating Islam: The Past and Future of an Academic Discipline (Equinox, 2007); Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction (Equinox, 2012); Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam (Columbia, 2012); and Abrahamic Religions: On the Uses and Abuses of History (Oxford, 2012). He currently serves as the editor of the journal Method and Theory in the Study of Religion.
Description
Chapter 6, The Study of Islam in an Age of Trump, is based on lectures I gave at the Aga Khan University, the Freie Universität of Berlin, and the University of Frieburg. It provides an autobiographical account as a way to show some of the problems besetting the study of Islam going into the future.