Islam & Science: An Educational Approach Workshop at ISTAC/IIUM – Nov. 29 – Dec. 2, 2013 International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), International…

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…

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…

Two science histories dissect the transfer of knowledge between the Greco–Islamic and European civilizations, and put right the impression that the flow was one way,…

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…