Muslim Perspectives on Cloning

Bismi-Llahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim I begin this address by pronouncing the traditional sentence “in the name of God the Compassionate the All-Merciful”. With this formula, the Muslims initiate…

Jim Al-Khalili revisits Ibn al-Haytham’s hugely influential study on its millennium.

By Nidhal Guessoum I review first the main similarities and differences between the planetary model of Ibn al-Shatir (14th-Century Muslim astronomer) and of Copernicus. I…

Maryam Mirzakhani of Stanford University is the first female mathematician to win a Fields Medal in the prize’s 78 years of history.

Reforms of the curricula are urgently needed for future scholars in hermeneutics and critical analysis

Modern science has produced something quite unexpected. Even to a scientist such as myself. It turns out that the observed features of the natural world…

Conservative traditions, rather than religious belief, seem to be the main barrier to modern science in Muslim countries, says David Dickson. Earlier this month, I…

Imagine that you had digital access to all the books that have ever been written. Imagine further that you could search through them just by…

Islamic intellectual culture suffers from a philosophy deficit. While there are a few philosophical thinkers in the Muslim World today none of them enjoys the…

Critical debate is needed to resolve science-Islam divisions and ensure that knowledge flourishes in the Muslim world, says Athar Osama.

Let me start by uttering the traditional formula “In the Name of God the Compassionate the All-Merciful”. With this sentence, Muslims begin all the ritual…