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...reason's primacy is debated in Islam, it is very much part of the culture that developed algebra. Paleologus' forced-conversion accusation misrepresents the sweep of Muslim history, since more often than not, Islam has left religious groups in conquered territory intact, if hobbled. And assuming that a punctilious scholar like Benedict really wanted to engage on Islam and violence, why do it through the idiosyncratic lens of an embattled king in the 1400s who made his name partly for his efforts at drumming up enthusiasm for a new Crusade...
...Dari has sought since his return to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Having spent much of the adulthood teaching Islamic law and history in various Arab universities, he was nonetheless able to adjust quickly to the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq. As an Islamic scholar of note, few questioned his right to lead the AMS, and he organized the clerics' body into a stridently anti-American organization that gave voice to the Sunni community's anxiety and resentment over the loss of their centuries-old grip on political power...
What does it take to reach the pinnacle of academia and receive tenure at Harvard? While nearly everyone agrees that a faculty member must be a top-notch researcher and scholar, the relative importance of a variety of other factors is highly debatable. Harvard’s president has a hand in every tenure offer the University extends; our next president must understand the importance of this power. Weighing these other factors will be one of the most critical judgments that he or she will have to make. We find two criteria that are particularly undervalued in the current system...
...that the intent is “to increase coverage of Islamic civilization” with no interest in political issues. “The Islamic Studies for the Islamic Middle East and North Africa at Harvard is very strong,” Mottahedeh, himself a Middle East scholar, wrote. “The present community of scholars strongly welcomes the extension of Islamic studies to areas beyond these regions.” Jewett Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, a member of the steering committee for the new program, said that the program will help address glaring gaps...
...you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Dad, this is making me uncomfortable. Favorite childhood toy: Soccer ball, my father’s firearms. Sexiest physical trait: My RAZR, the soaring eagle tattoo across my chest. Favorite part about Harvard: Clifton Dawson. Describe yourself in three words: Scholar, lover, UC vice-presidential candidate. In 15 minutes you are: Trying to make friends. In 15 years you are: Buying friends...