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Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, will become the first Aga Khan Professor of Iranian at Harvard University...
...Frye is a leading American authority on the history and language of Iran and has done research work there. During his travels he collected dialects, folk songs and dances of the central deserts on tape and film. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1939 and continued his Oriental studies at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of London...
...Islam can survive," Frye told the first meeting of the Harvard Muslim Society, but added that over a longer period of time the sacraments and traditions of Islam can perhaps retain sufficient hold on the people of Central Asia to enable the religion and culture to stay alive...
...Russian techniques of discrediting the religion have been, said Frye, more effective than Hitler's persecutions of Judaism. While allowing the older people to keep their "cultural autonomy," the Communists have indoctrinated the youth with the spirit of 19th century humanism. The new generation is turning from worship of God to deiflcation...
While destroying the hold of religion, the Russians have also made Central Asia into a "showpiece" for visiting oriental delegations to admire. The coexistence of heavy industry, modern railroads, factories, and irrigation projects with the old civilization is, according to Frye, merely a sham to impress foreign visitors...