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The Politics Behind Islamic Origins | A Conversation with Prof. Aaron W. Hughes

In this episode of Real Talk 🎙️, we sit down with Professor Aaron Hughes 🧠 to explore the complex and often controversial field of Islamic origins 📜. Drawing from his influential works The Tyranny of Authenticity and The Current Status and Problems of Islamic Origins 📚, Hughes challenges how Islamic history is studied, who gets to study it, and why the politics of authenticity, identity, and ideology continue to shape the field 🔍. We cover a wide range of questions 💭: • How have things changed in Islamic Studies since Tyranny was published? 🔄 • Why does the study of Islam’s origins demand a “meta” level of theory and method? 🧩 • What does it mean to approach the Qur’an through the lens of Late Antiquity? 🕊️ • And how do scholars navigate the appropriation of their work by political actors—or even YouTubers? 🎥 Alongside these critical reflections, Hughes weighs in on contemporary debates surrounding revisionist scholarship 🏺, insider/outsider tensions ⚖️, and whether a truly “critical” Qur’an project is even possible 🧭. This is a wide-ranging, challenging, and timely conversation ⏳ for anyone interested in religion, history, or the politics of academic knowledge 🌍.