If you ask any person on the street in a Muslim state if they believe in science, the likely answer will be a resounding yes….

A few weeks ago, a story broke in the media about British Muslim students “increasingly” refusing to attend biological evolution classes. Even medical students, it…

During the golden age of its civilization, Islam produced some of the finest thinkers and scientists the world has ever known: Al-Khwarizmi, al-Biruni, Ibn al-Haitham,…

Unlike the West where surveys of scientists’ religiosity have been conducted by several groups of researchers, the correlation between religiosity and scientific attainment has never been studied in the Arab-Muslim world

Islamist political parties are taking over from secular ones across the Muslim world. What does this mean for science at home and scientific cooperation with…

The newly established McGill Centre for Islam and Science (MCIS) held its first event on September 22: a public lecture by Professor Rana Dajani titled,…

Educators must ally themselves with media communicators to devise new strategies to attract young minds to science

Fruits of the Past & Present On July 16, 2014, the United Arab Emirates’ leadership announced the creation of a UAE space agency and an…

The rise of creationism in Islam and Christianity has global implications that extend beyond religion

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, an Islamic scholar born a thousand years ago in Central Asia, calculated Earth’s circumference with astounding accuracy and invented specific gravity, the…

What is needed is a paradigm shift among teachers and educators that this globalised, digitally connected 
and fluid world needs new minds. Teaching must change…

In Egypt, a new decision by Mahmoud El-Nasr, the minister of education, may very well see schools teaching its students about the “scientific miracles in…