History is full of episodes and examples of people who, for having been a bit more clairvoyant, thoughtful, humanistic, or heterodox than the rest of…

Revolutions in Libya and elsewhere have raised hopes for science in the Arab world. But progress will be slow, cautions Rana Dajani. The apparent success…

By Nidhal Guessoum, Kiram Meziane In the Islamic calendar, a new month starts the day after the first naked-eye sighting of the thin crescent, shortly…

“Secondly: to show that Cosmology does indeed lend itself to philosophical and theological interpretation, by relating the scientific picture that cosmology gives us about the universe to the…

In the U.S., debates about science and religion in the classroom tend to focus on American public high schools, where local school boards argue about…

The next major battle over evolutionary theory is likely to occur not in the United States but in the Islamic world or in countries with…

Salman Hameed teaches astronomy and religious studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has lectured in Pakistan on reconciling evolution with Islam. Hameed spoke…

By Salman Hameed Early in 2007, biologists and anthropologists at universities across the United States received an unsolicited gift of an 850-page, colored Atlas of…

A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales titled Islam and the Environment, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford Vice Chancellor, Your Royal Highnesses, Director, Ladies and Gentlemen….

Can knowledge, spirituality and action change the World? International conference in Doha, May 30th – June 1st 2008 Organized by the Al Jazeera Center for…

Mehdi Golshani (1939–) is a distinguished Iranian physicist and philosopher, who has been described as a modern Avicenna. What distinguishes him from many other Muslim…

Salman Hameed is heading over to New Orleans for the annual MESA (Middle Eastern Studies Association) meeting (Irtiqa). He is part of the panel on…