Word: asani
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...Without courses on modern South Asia, the whole program will go," said Associate Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali S. Asani. Schimmel and Asani are scholars of South Asia in the late medieval and modern periods...
Schimmel's retirement and the possible departure of Asani would mean that the University would have to discontinue between 30 and 35 courses, Asani said...
Schimmel and Asani are the only professors at the University who teach courses specifically on South Asian Islamic culture and civilization. In addition, Schimmel teaches Persian and Turkish while Asani is the only scholar who teaches Hindi and Urdu...
Sixty students enrolled in Asani's Urdu language classes last year, the largest enrollment for a nonwestern language course at Harvard, he said...
...basic problem, Witzel said, remains: "the administration has not started a procedure to make [Asani] a full professor...