Aaron W. Hughes is Associate Professor of History and the Gordon and Gretchen Gross Professor in the Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters he is the author of The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought (Indiana UP); Jewish Philosophy A-Z (Edinburgh UP); Situating Islam: The Past and Future of an Academic Discipline (Equinox); The Art of Dialogue in Jewish Philosophy (Indiana UP); and editor (along with Elliot R. Wolfson) of New Directions in Jewish Thought (Indiana UP).