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Interview with Professor Aaron Hughes: American Orientalism and Understanding the Quran in the Light of Late Antiquity

Volume: 8 Number: 2 October 30, 2024
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Interview with Professor Aaron Hughes: American Orientalism and Understanding the Quran in the Light of Late Antiquity

Abstract

This study includes our interview with Aaron Hughes, who continued his studies on Islam in the United States. Hughes, a professor at the University of Rochester, is highly knowledgeable and widely recognized in the field of Religious Studies. The questions we posed to Hughes were re-lated to two subjects: American Orientalism and Late Antiquity. As far as we can determine, there are very few studies on these two subjects in Türkiye. This interview will attempt to contribute to the Turkish academic community. The question of which centuries are included in the Late An-tiquity created by Peter Brown is a matter of debate. This period, which generally covers the pe-riod from the 2nd century AD to the end of the 8th century in historiography, is constantly being stretched by researchers in the United States. Garth Fowden, who expanded the period even fur-ther and extended it to a longer period, put forward the theory of the “First Millennium”. This periodization, which has made a great leap forward in the field of history with the studies con-ducted in recent years, has begun to be used effectively in Qur’anic studies. Angelika Neuwirth, a German-born orientalist, has conducted an intertextual reading by placing the Quran within the epistemic fabric of Late Antiquity with her Corpus Coranicum project. This method, which is also used in the works of American orientalists such as Stephen Shoemaker, Daniel Beck, Sean Anthony, Gabriel Said Reynolds and David Powers, seems likely to dominate the field in the coming years.

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Thanks

Aaron Hughes'a teşekkür ederim.

References

  1. Marginalia, “Late Antiquity Dissolves- By Anthony Kaldellis”, (13 September 2024) https://themarginaliareview.com/late-antiquity-dissolves-by-anthony-kaldellis/.
  2. Hervé Inglebert, “Introduction: Late Antique Conceptions of Late Antiquity”, The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, ed. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Tafsir

Journal Section

Other

Early Pub Date

October 29, 2024

Publication Date

October 30, 2024

Submission Date

September 17, 2024

Acceptance Date

October 15, 2024

Published in Issue

Year 2024 Volume: 8 Number: 2

APA
Kara, B. (2024). Interview with Professor Aaron Hughes: American Orientalism and Understanding the Quran in the Light of Late Antiquity. Tefsir Araştırmaları Dergisi, 8(2), 764-775. https://doi.org/10.31121/tader.1551665
AMA
1.Kara B. Interview with Professor Aaron Hughes: American Orientalism and Understanding the Quran in the Light of Late Antiquity. TADER. 2024;8(2):764-775. doi:10.31121/tader.1551665
Chicago
Kara, Bayram. 2024. “Interview With Professor Aaron Hughes: American Orientalism and Understanding the Quran in the Light of Late Antiquity”. Tefsir Araştırmaları Dergisi 8 (2): 764-75. https://doi.org/10.31121/tader.1551665.
EndNote
Kara B (October 1, 2024) Interview with Professor Aaron Hughes: American Orientalism and Understanding the Quran in the Light of Late Antiquity. Tefsir Araştırmaları Dergisi 8 2 764–775.
IEEE
[1]B. Kara, “Interview with Professor Aaron Hughes: American Orientalism and Understanding the Quran in the Light of Late Antiquity”, TADER, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 764–775, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.31121/tader.1551665.
ISNAD
Kara, Bayram. “Interview With Professor Aaron Hughes: American Orientalism and Understanding the Quran in the Light of Late Antiquity”. Tefsir Araştırmaları Dergisi 8/2 (October 1, 2024): 764-775. https://doi.org/10.31121/tader.1551665.
JAMA
1.Kara B. Interview with Professor Aaron Hughes: American Orientalism and Understanding the Quran in the Light of Late Antiquity. TADER. 2024;8:764–775.
MLA
Kara, Bayram. “Interview With Professor Aaron Hughes: American Orientalism and Understanding the Quran in the Light of Late Antiquity”. Tefsir Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol. 8, no. 2, Oct. 2024, pp. 764-75, doi:10.31121/tader.1551665.
Vancouver
1.Bayram Kara. Interview with Professor Aaron Hughes: American Orientalism and Understanding the Quran in the Light of Late Antiquity. TADER. 2024 Oct. 1;8(2):764-75. doi:10.31121/tader.1551665