How literally they interpret the Koran will clearly influence how the new Islamist governments regulate science and technology. One of the Muslim Brotherhood’s leading thinkers,…

The party’s presence and influence has expanded across the Muslim world — from the Middle East to Africa and Asia. In the absence of basic…

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…

Sacred science My proposition is clear: the decline can only be reversed by a conceptual shift. Science will only take root in Muslim societies if…

Under colonialism So what is missing from the standard analysis? I have argued for the intimate and constructive connection between Islam and science. But Islamic…

If scientific culture in the Muslim world has changed since the golden era of Islamic science, so has the practice of Islam. Reintroducing knowledge and…

By Nadeem F. Paracha I still remember a conversation I once overheard between two cops standing just outside my grandfather’s office as a teenager in…

The philosophical definition of scientific truth is a debated issue. Apart from theories which are not self-consistent and should be either rapidly eliminated, or re-elaborated,…

What is the spiritual lesson we can draw from the scientific pursuit of modern cosmology ? It seems that, in spite of its program to…

The intelligibility and universality of the laws Some cosmologists use the word « universe » for each of these causally-disconnected patches, and the word « multiverse » to name…

This quick survey of the view of modern cosmology shows how quantitative the approach is. However, there are several fields in which our incapacity to…

We know focus to modern cosmology to illustrate how recurrent puzzles point at the nature of reality. We live in a very peculiar epoch for…