Hebrew Union College funds Muslim scholar’s rescue

By Brad A. Greenberg

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/community_briefs/article/hebrew_union_college_funds_muslim_scholars_rescue_20080222/

Students at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) were surprised to learn last month that for the first time their professor for a course in contemporary Islam was, in fact, a Muslim. Ismail Bardhi had arrived as a refugee a few weeks before through the college's Scholar Rescue Fund. The former dean of the faculty of Islamic Studies in Skopje, Macedonia, Bardhi was beaten and stripped of his title because he refused to cede to the vision of Kosovar nationalists, who in rising to power were marginalizing secular Muslims and "Islamic humanists" like Bardhi.

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Comments:	A friend has recommended you read the following from The Jewish Journal... Hebrew Union College funds Muslim scholar’s rescue Students at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) were surprised to learn last month that for the first time their professor for a course in contemporary Islam was, in fact, a Muslim. Ismail Bardhi had arrived as a refugee a few weeks before through the college's Scholar Rescue Fund. The former dean of the faculty of Islamic Studies in Skopje, Macedonia, Bardhi was beaten and stripped of his title because he refused to cede to the vision of Kosovar nationalists, who in rising to power were marginalizing secular Muslims and "Islamic humanists" like Bardhi. http://www.jewishjournal.com/community_briefs/article/hebrew_union_college_funds_muslim_scholars_rescue_20080222/ Sign up for our free email news alerts at http://www.jewishjournal.com/email.

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