SRF Featured Scholar: Scholar of Islamic Studies from Azerbaijan

Since the Republic of Azerbaijan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Dr. Nariman Gasimoglu, a renowned Qur’anic scholar and leading intellectual in Azerbaijan’s pro-democracy movement, has immersed himself in scholarly and public discourse on democratization and the role of Islam in Azerbaijani society. Throughout his academic career, he has risked his own security to pursue research on these controversial topics. 

Read more about Dr. Gasimoglu’s work and his current SRF fellowship at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center here: www.scholarrescuefund.org/pages/about-us/featured-scholar.php.