/lit/ - Literature

Honest question /lit/. Why is it that, aside from Reza Aslan, there's hardly any prominent Muslim academics in the humanities today?

I don't mean to sound orientalist, but I've been told much of this has to do with Islamic culture. The vast majority of Muslims who enter Western universities major in STEM rather than humanities or social sciences. Part of me thinks this is because their culture discourages things like deconstructionism. To compare, several prominent culture critics and deconstructionists came from Jewish backgrounds; Judaism is all about exegesis on the written Torah. In Islam, you are not allowed to interpret the Qur'an in any other way aside from what's said in the Hadith, as the Qur'an was given to one man only (Muhammad) and for good reason.

Am I wrong?