Use astronomy to determine start of Ramadan: scholars

Astronomical calculations have determined accurately when it starts every year since 1993

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Looking back on the Golden Age of Muslim Science

With Syria in an almost apocalyptic state of civil war at the moment, it’s hard to remember that Damascus was once one of the great…

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Medical Education in Islamic Civilization

The practice of medicine was considered a noble profession by Muslims…

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Graduating into a new digital world

With a surfeit of information available at our fingertips through the internet, it is necessary to raise the alarm for youngsters to be very careful about how they use material that can easily be obtained online

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The Muslim world’s challenges

FOR about a thousand years, roughly from the 7th century onwards, the people under Islamic rule made striking advances in their material and intellectual culture.

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Science and Islam Dialogues for the 21st century

The persons featured in this film have participated in the conference “Science, Cultures and the Future of Humanity, Could Knowledge, Spirituality and Action Re-shape the…

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Science and the Islamic World

The Golden Age of Islam came to a halt in the thirteenth century with the Mongol invasion of much of Asia and Middle East. Since then, the lands…

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Don’t pass on your maths phobia

Becoming comfortable with simple mathematics early in one’s childhood is more strongly correlated with later academic success than reading skills Last month, a study was…

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MIGHT, Muslim-Science.Com launch task force on Science teaching

The Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) and the American University of Sharjah today launched the Muslim-Science.Com’s Task Force on Teaching of Science in…

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American University of Sharjah explores ‘Science Renaissance’

American University of Sharjah (AUS) held a high-impact seminar entitled Steps for an Arab Astronomy Renaissance at its campus on May 14. The event, which…

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Science vs. religion

In the 17th century, Galileo dared to say that the earth revolved around the sun and was not the center of the universe. The Catholic…

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Do we need science media centres in the Arab world?

A talk about the negative effects that science media centres are having on science journalism is almost an obligatory session at any meeting of science…

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