Aaron Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3942500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Muslim Identities
Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam presents a fully updated introduction to the religion of Islam and the various social groups who define themselves as Muslim. Unlike other such works, it presents both insider and outsider accounts with the aim of striking a unique balance between overly apologetical and overly Orientalist perspectives. With the first edition described as a “truly outstanding book” and “the very best introduction curren…
Shared Identities
This controversial study breaks with received opinion that imagines two distinct religions, Judaism and Islam, interacting in the centuries immediately following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes these relations using the trope of “symbiosis.” This book instead argues that various porous groups—neither fully Muslim nor Jewish—exploited a shared terminology to make sense of their social worlds in response to t…
A Note on the Reception History of the Dialoghi d'Amore
A Case of Twelfth-Century Plagiarism? Abraham Ibn Ezra's 'Ḥay Ben Meqitz' and Avicenna's 'Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓân
W hat follows examines an important aspect of the intimate relationship between Jews and Muslims in the Middle Ages. 1 It presents what, at least on the surface, amounts to a case of Hebrew-Jewish plagiarism of an earlier Arabo-Islamic text.In particular, it focuses on a Hebrew treatise by the name of H . ay ben Meqitz 2 written by Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) that follows closely on the heels of an Arabic text by the same name (H .ayy ibn Yaqz .…
Presenting the Past
This article provides a theoretical discussion of the genre of commentary writing. Rather than examining the role of commentary in a specific religion, it attempts to articulate a set of useful questions to begin the process of rethinking what this genre is and, in the process, help create a theoretical vocabulary and conceptual framework for an analysis of commentary from the history of religions. The article is divided into three parts. The fir…
The stranger at the sea
This study's point of departure is a famous statement issued by Charles Adams in 1967 that contends that the History of Religions and Islamic Studies are essentially incompatible. In revisiting Adams' claim, this study examines the use of myth and mythopoesis in the Qur'ân. For within this sacred scripture there exist many mythemes that connect it, both linguistically and structurally, to wider and deeper semiotics of meaning. The particular focu…
The Three Worlds of ibn Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz
The Three Worlds of ibn Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz
Two approaches to the love of God in medieval Jewish thought
Both Abraham Ibn Ezra and Judah Halevi claim that the ideal relationship between the individual and God is founded on love and culminates in the individual cleaving ( devequt) to God. Although they use the same term to describe this telos, they envisage the means to it in different ways. A closer analysis of this term reveals that this difference is rooted in their respective ideas concerning the role of philosophy in Judaism. Ibn Ezra, a rationa…
Two approaches to the love of God in medieval Jewish thought
Both Abraham Ibn Ezra and Judah Halevi claim that the ideal relationship between the individual and God is founded on love and culminates in the individual cleaving ( devequt) to God. Although they use the same term to describe this telos, they envisage the means to it in different ways. A closer analysis of this term reveals that this difference is rooted in their respective ideas concerning the role of philosophy in Judaism. Ibn Ezra, a rationa…
Presenting the Past
This article provides a theoretical discussion of the genre of commentary writing. Rather than examining the role of commentary in a specific religion, it attempts to articulate a set of useful questions to begin the process of rethinking what this genre is and, in the process, help create a theoretical vocabulary and conceptual framework for an analysis of commentary from the history of religions. The article is divided into three parts. The fir…
Two approaches to the love of God in medieval Jewish thought
Both Abraham Ibn Ezra and Judah Halevi claim that the ideal relationship between the individual and God is founded on love and culminates in the individual cleaving ( devequt) to God. Although they use the same term to describe this telos, they envisage the means to it in different ways. A closer analysis of this term reveals that this difference is rooted in their respective ideas concerning the role of philosophy in Judaism. Ibn Ezra, a rationa…
The Three Worlds of ibn Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz
The Three Worlds of ibn Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz
Presenting the Past
This article provides a theoretical discussion of the genre of commentary writing. Rather than examining the role of commentary in a specific religion, it attempts to articulate a set of useful questions to begin the process of rethinking what this genre is and, in the process, help create a theoretical vocabulary and conceptual framework for an analysis of commentary from the history of religions. The article is divided into three parts. The fir…
The stranger at the sea
This study's point of departure is a famous statement issued by Charles Adams in 1967 that contends that the History of Religions and Islamic Studies are essentially incompatible. In revisiting Adams' claim, this study examines the use of myth and mythopoesis in the Qur'ân. For within this sacred scripture there exist many mythemes that connect it, both linguistically and structurally, to wider and deeper semiotics of meaning. The particular focu…
A Case of Twelfth-Century Plagiarism? Abraham Ibn Ezra's 'Ḥay Ben Meqitz' and Avicenna's 'Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓân
W hat follows examines an important aspect of the intimate relationship between Jews and Muslims in the Middle Ages. 1 It presents what, at least on the surface, amounts to a case of Hebrew-Jewish plagiarism of an earlier Arabo-Islamic text.In particular, it focuses on a Hebrew treatise by the name of H . ay ben Meqitz 2 written by Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) that follows closely on the heels of an Arabic text by the same name (H .ayy ibn Yaqz .…
A Note on the Reception History of the Dialoghi d'Amore
Shared Identities
This controversial study breaks with received opinion that imagines two distinct religions, Judaism and Islam, interacting in the centuries immediately following the death of Muhammad in the early seventh century. Tradition describes these relations using the trope of “symbiosis.” This book instead argues that various porous groups—neither fully Muslim nor Jewish—exploited a shared terminology to make sense of their social worlds in response to t…
Muslim Identities
Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam presents a fully updated introduction to the religion of Islam and the various social groups who define themselves as Muslim. Unlike other such works, it presents both insider and outsider accounts with the aim of striking a unique balance between overly apologetical and overly Orientalist perspectives. With the first edition described as a “truly outstanding book” and “the very best introduction curren…
Philosophy (8 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (6 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Islam (4 works)