Table of Contents

Preface: Noble LiesIntroduction: Setting the Problem, Laying the GroundChapter One: Islamic Religious Studies and the Politics of IdentityChapter Two: Prisoners of SaidChapter Three: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Path Between Chapter Four: Business as Usual Chapter Five: Jacob Neusner Meets Islamic StudiesChapter Six: Turf Wars

About the Author

Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester. He is the author 10 books and over 50 articles and book chapters.

Reviews

Aaron Hughes's Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity is but the most recent of his ongoing efforts to invite scholars of Islam to see their object of study as no more or less human than any other, suggesting that their methods should not only be comparable to those found in other sub-specialties but also that their field can be the beneficiary of advances that have taken place elsewhere.