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…

Modern Science: the Triumph of the Secular It is now common wisdom that the rise of modern science was not a natural result of some…

Scientia Sacra Defined and Defended Nasr defines scientia sacra as ‘that sacred knowledge which lies at the heart of every revelation and is the center…

Nasr’s work on science is discomforting for many. His defense of traditional sciences is seen by his critiques as a nostalgic appeal to tradition with…

In Cara lecture, Iraqi-born physicist calls for revival of region’s thirst for knowledge One of the UK’s leading physicists will urge the countries of the…

Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail first proposed building a $2 billion science and technology institute in Cairo 12 years ago, just after he won a Nobel…

Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail first proposed building a $2 billion science and technology institute in Cairo 12 years ago, just after he won a Nobel…

New Worldviews Odeh Rashed Al Jayyousi, Royal Scientific Society, Jordan In Islam and Sustainable Development, Odeh Al-Jayyousi addresses the social, human and economic dimensions of…

The Islamic World and Science Today As I mentioned above, there are two important aspects to how the question of science is addressed in the…

Scientific Universalism versus Cultural Particularism The participation of Muslim philosophers and scholars in the debate over the historicity of modern science has added a new…

In his preface to Heisenberg’s Physics and Philosophy, F. S. C. Northop made the following observation on the spread of modern science to non-Western societies:…

It has often been observed that Islam cannot ordinarily be described as a religion and that it prescribes a way of life that goes beyond…