Thoughts on Dissecting an Octopus

Aaron Hughes, Marshall Hodgson and Navigating the Normative /Descriptive Divide in the Study of Islam

Authors

Vernon James Schubel Kenyon College

Keywords:

Islam, Islamic Studies, Omid Safi, Aaron Hughes, Theory

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References

Courtright, Paul. 2006. “The Self-Serving Humility of Disciplining Liberal Humanist Scholars” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 74: 752–55.

Hodgson, Marshall G. S. The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Volume 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Hughes, Aaron W. 2012. Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction. Sheffield: Equinox.

———. 2013. Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam. New York: Columbia University Press.

Safi, Omar. 2014. “Reflections on the State of Islamic Studies.” Jadaliyya. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/16269/reflections-on-the-state-of-islamic-studies

Said, Edward. 1979. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon.

Schubel, Vernon. 1993. Religious Performance in Contemporary Islam: Shici Devotional Rituals in South Asia. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.

Stoneham, Carl J. 2014. “Will it Ever Be ‘Just about Bad Scholarship?’: A Response to Aaron Hughes and Omid Safi.” Religion Bulletin Blog. http://www.equinoxpub.com/blog/2014/02/will-it-ever-be-just- about-bad-scholarship-a-response-to-aaron-hughes- and-omid-safi/

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Published

2014-12-02

Issue

Bulletin for the Study of Religion

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