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        "id": 1390375,
        "msgid": "first-asian-professor-for-harvard-university-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-03-13 00:00:00",
        "title": "First Asian professor for Harvard university",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "First Asian professor for Harvard university NEW YORK (ANTARA): Indonesian professor Ali Shihab has been invited to become the first Asian intellectual to teach Islamic philosophy at the prestigious Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. \"I was asked to teach at Harvard as of July,\" he said from Connecticut, where he has worked for two years as a guest professor at Hartford Seminary.",
        "content": "<p>First Asian professor for Harvard university<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (ANTARA): Indonesian professor Ali Shihab has been<br>\ninvited to become the first Asian intellectual to teach Islamic<br>\nphilosophy at the prestigious Harvard University in Boston,<br>\nMassachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>\"I was asked to teach at Harvard as of July,\" he said from<br>\nConnecticut, where he has worked for two years as a guest<br>\nprofessor at Hartford Seminary.<\/p>\n<p>Born in South Sulawesi, 52-year-old Ali earned his doctorate<br>\n1990 from Ain Shams University in Cairo for his thesis,Tasauf<br>\n(mysticism) influence on Indonesian society.<\/p>\n<p>He earned another doctorate from Temple University in<br>\nPhiladelphia in 1995 with the thesis, Islam-Christian<br>\nrelationships in Indonesia: A case study of Muhammadiyah.<\/p>\n<p>Ali worked as senior researcher at Harvard University's Center<br>\nfor the Study of World Religions in 1995 and 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Ali said he has accepted the invitation and would become the<br>\nfirst Asian to teach Islamic ideas and thoughts at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>He hoped his presence at Harvard would pave the way for more<br>\nIndonesians to study or conduct research there.<\/p>\n<p>He would also attempt to further popularize studies of<br>\nIndonesia, its religious and political life and its economy, he<br>\nsaid.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/first-asian-professor-for-harvard-university-1447893297",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
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