Why Setting New Foundations for the Dialogue Should Matter for Muslims

Historians who track the development of astronomy from antiquity to the Renaissance sometimes refer to the time from the eighth through the 14th centuries as…

The Muslim world’s past contributions to science and education were extraordinary. The Islamic “golden age” – during which scholarship and learning flourished across the Muslim…

Encouraging students to challenge ideas is crucial to fostering a generation of Muslim scientists who are free thinkers, says Rana Dajani.

Science and Islam are intimately linked. This sounds odd. First, because we normally think of religion as harmfully hostile to science. Wasn’t there a long…

What is the relation between science and religion? This is an important question. The world we inhabit today is shaped by modern science and its…

What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

By Mohammed Basil Altaie The question of the eternity or temporality of the universe was thoroughly discussed by Muslim theologians. Most of them, principally those…

Modern cosmology is exploring the universe with increasing success. Several of its spectacular breakthroughs have some significance with respect to the meaning of the human…

There have been several books published recently touting the historical contributions of Islamic scholars to the early history of science (in the Middle Ages), but…

According to some Muslim scholars, everything from genetics to robotics and space travel is described in the Quran. What nonsense.

This speech was delivered by Professor Abdus Salam (1926-1996), Nobel Laureate in Physics (1979), in Paris at the UNESCO House on April 27, 1984 at…