You wait for one step forward in Muslim thinking, then two come along at the same time. Hot on the heels of a major debate…

Pursuing a science career in the Arab world is challenging, but women embarking on this path may face more hurdles than their male peers. Why…

Acolytes of Dawkins & Hitchens pretend that ignorant evangelicals represent all of religion. Here’s what they miss Sana Saeed I’m supposed to hate science. Or…

Muhammad Abdus Salam was a genius. And for a genius to end up receiving the Nobel Prize is a no big surprise. But in this…

By now a new generation of scholars has concluded that the Muslim world did more than simply save and transmit Greek knowledge to the Europeans…

Pervez Hoodbhoy argues that Pakistan cannot develop scientifically by focusing solely on producing PhDs and research papers. He also says Pakistan must reward enquiry and originality…

Not surprisingly, the Quran frequently spills over into the professional lives of Muslim scientists. Professors who teach in the Middle East may find themselves dealing…

Curiosity and inquisitiveness were the traits which earned earlier Muslim scientists their rightful place in the development of science and these are the two qualities…

Many Muslims are especially bothered by evolution. By and large, Islamic culture is creationist, judging by a 2008 survey about evolution in six Muslim countries:…

“You believe that Muhammad went to heaven on a winged horse?” That was the question posed to me by none other than Richard Dawkins a…

Islam has a long and tangled history with science, but there’s one point that nearly everyone acknowledges: Science in the Muslim world is now in…

We may think the charged relationship between science and religion is mainly a problem for Christian fundamentalists, but modern science is also under fire in…