Nowadays, research data are so humongous that deep and sophisticated mastery of statistical tools is necessary in order to avoid drawing glittery but wrong conclusions…

It has often been observed that Islam cannot ordinarily be described as a religion and that it prescribes a way of life that goes beyond…

“Who would have imagined president Mohammed Morsi citing Planet of the Apes as influencing his vision of nation-building?” asked BBC journalist Samira Ahmed, a panellist…

What is ‘Islamic medicine’? It is a term fraught with limitations. No definitive definition exists, but most reputable historians of medicine have characterized it by…

History is full of episodes and examples of people who, for having been a bit more clairvoyant, thoughtful, humanistic, or heterodox than the rest of…

Revolutions in Libya and elsewhere have raised hopes for science in the Arab world. But progress will be slow, cautions Rana Dajani. The apparent success…

Though it points out remarkable developments in the history of Islamic science, it reproduced a contentious narrative about it, that has troubled historians of science…

After centuries of stagnation science is making a comeback in the Islamic world THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced…

Two science histories dissect the transfer of knowledge between the Greco–Islamic and European civilizations, and put right the impression that the flow was one way,…

By Nidhal Guessoum, Kiram Meziane In the Islamic calendar, a new month starts the day after the first naked-eye sighting of the thin crescent, shortly…

“Secondly: to show that Cosmology does indeed lend itself to philosophical and theological interpretation, by relating the scientific picture that cosmology gives us about the universe to the…

In the U.S., debates about science and religion in the classroom tend to focus on American public high schools, where local school boards argue about…