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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...
...Asani said he has recently received a tenure offer from the University of Bonn to head their South Asian program. He is currently negotiating with the school, he said, and will leave Harvard if no solution can be found...
...There is all this talk about the University's commitments to junior faculty and hiring minorities," said Asani. "I don't see anything being done...
Even when these senior and junior posts began eating into the fund's capital, the trustees continued to finance the positions. The trustees felt obligated until Schimmel retired, Asani said...