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...Johansen, who has been at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris for a decade, will assume tenure at HDS in July 2005, filling a position that has been marked by controversy in recent years...
...Johansen, who has previously taught at Brown and Princeton, is expected to teach a course in the fall...
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, who is also an Islamic scholar...
...accepting his tenured spot, Johansen said that he looked forward to his time at Harvard...
...This appointment gives me the chance to cooperate with some of the leading scholars in fields closely related to Islamic religious studies and to use the resources of what may be the finest Occidental library on Islam,” Johansen said. “After having been a professor in Berlin and Paris, I consider this step a big change, a great chance, and an enormous challenge. I am excited and enthusiastic about the new prospects that integration into Harvard’s institutions and culture opens...