Harvard recruits Islamic studies and muslim law professor to Divinity Faculty - Harvard Crimson:: News: Baber Johansen, a renowned professor of Islamic studies and expert on muslim law, has accepted a position as Professor of Islamic Studies at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS). Johansen, who has been at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes 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.