Aaron W. Hughes

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Aaron W. Hughes
The University of Alberta
Academic work
DisciplineReligious studies
Sub-disciplineIslamic studies
Institutions
WebsiteOfficial website

Aaron W. Hughes is an Arab-Canadian academic in the field of

Alberta, Canada
.

Biography

The son of William Hughes and Sadie Alley, Aaron Hughes was born on August 15, 1968 in

Fort Simpson, NWT to parents from Srifa, Lebanon.[citation needed
]

Hughes received a

Indiana University in Bloomington, where he received a M.A. in 1995 and a Ph.D. in 2000 for a dissertation entitled Philosophy's Mythos: Aesthetics, the Imagination, and the Philosophical Novel on Medieval Jewish and Islamic Thought.[citation needed] This was subsequently published as The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought (Indiana University Press, 2004) and was one of three finalists for a Koret Jewish Book Award in the Thought/Philosophy category.[1]

Career

Hughes is a scholar of three interrelated fields of research: Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and theory and method in the study of religion.

Hughes has primarily been interested in critiquing what he regards as the overly apologetical and ecumenical approach to Islamic Studies. Two of his books take aim at the field: Situating Islam and Theorizing Islam.

Review of Middle East Studies, Peter Matthews Wright criticized the author's uneven tone and reversion to language that undermines Hughes' stated aims.[4]

Hughes was co-editor of Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (MTSR).[5] He was the editor of the Academy Series, published by Oxford University Press for the American Academy of Religion,[6] and co-editor for the Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers.[7]

In 2022, he cofounded the Journal of Religious Minorities Under Muslim Rule (JRMMR).[citation needed]

Canadian studies

In 2020, Hughes published From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada (University of Toronto Press). The book offers the first history of the study of religion in Canada. This was followed by 10 Days that Shaped Modern Canada, which he wrote during the COVID-19 pandemic while a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford.

In 2022, his work on medieval Islam—An Anxious Inheritance cam out, as did 10 Days. The latter work chose 10 significant days in Canadian history over the past 50 years and the events and their impact.

Hughes has subsequently written on the papal apology in Maskwacis, Alberta, and has written a biography of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.[citation needed]

Books

Authored

Edited

References

  1. ^ "MyJewishBooks Online".
  2. ^ Schwartz, Stephen (1 March 2009). "Review of Situating Islam". Middle East Quarterly.
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  5. ^ "Method & Theory in the Study of Religion - Brill". Archived from the original on 2013-05-23. Retrieved 2013-05-26.
  6. ^ "Academy Series". American Academy of Religion. Archived from the original on 2013-04-12. Retrieved 2013-05-26.
  7. ^ "Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers - Brill". 2013-06-06.