June 30th, 2011 | by
MuslimScience Published at: World Conference for Science Journalists 2011 A famed Egyptian-born scientist has challenged journalists in the Arab world to dispel what he called a widespread and biased idea that Islam is anti-science. Dr Ahmed...
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MuslimScience By: Ekmeludin Ihsanoglu, The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Excerpts from a Speech delivered American University of Sharjah The subject of Science and the faith, particularly the Islamic faith,...
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MuslimScience By: Steve Paulson Published in Chronicle of Higher Education on June 19, 2011 We may think the charged relationship between science and religion is mainly a problem for Christian fundamentalists, but modern science is also under...
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MuslimScience By: Ziauddin Sardar Lecture at the Royal Society, 2007 At the end of the tenth century, a brilliant scientist left his home town of Basra to pursue an ambitious project in Egypt. He’d noticed how, seasonally, the river Nile...
June 29th, 2011 | by
MuslimScience By: T. V. Padma Reporting from World Conference of Science Journalists in Doha Pu blished on SciDev.Net on 29 June 2011 Science journalists in the Gulf States should be more critical The Muslim world stands at a unique moment...
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MuslimScience By: Pervez Hoodbhoy Published in Physics Today (August, 2007) “If Muslim societies are to develop technology instead of just using it, the ruthlessly competitive global marketplace will insist on not only high skill levels...
June 20th, 2011 | by
MuslimScience By: Waleed Al-Shobakky Published in The New Atlantis, Fall 2008 Oil executives are rarely assigned to establish universities. But when the unlikely call arrives, some hardly pause to ponder the unconventionality of the...
June 17th, 2011 | by
MuslimScience By: Editors, localhost/muslim Nature Middle East on its blog titled “House of Wisdom” reports in a post titled Zewail City of Science and Technology: “The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has...
June 17th, 2011 | by
MuslimScience A diplomatic silence or conference fatigue may not be unique to OIC member countries. But what aggravates matters in the Islamic World is that alternate fora to promote a culture of open, vigorous, and critical debate are weak,...
June 5th, 2011 | by
MuslimScience Dear Colleagues and Friends: Greetings! I hope this finds you in the best of health and spirits. As some of you may know, I write Islam Analysis – the first and only regular column on Science in the Islamic World for a...
