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Baber Johansen, a renowned professor of Islamic studies and expert on muslim law, has accepted a position as Professor of Islamic Studies at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS).
In 2000, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), pledged a $2.5 million donation to HDS to create a faculty position for Islamic studies.
In August 2003, the position was suspended and the UAE closed the Zayed Center, but in December of that year, Graham announced that the school would make an appointment in Islamic studies—financially backed by special University funding—to replace the controversial Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan...
“I am pleased to announce that we are going forward with this important appointment in Islamic religious studies, so that we can advance our mission at HDS to provide teaching and scholarship about the world’s religions with the greater aim of promoting understanding and...
Thomas Professor of Divinity Leila Ahmed said Johansen specializes in “early classical Islam, particularly Fiqh, which is a kind of religious law, focusing on relations between the legal and ethical laws of Islam.” According to Ahmed, Johan will compliment the role played by Graham...