Science
June 30th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy: 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,...
Science
June 30th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy: 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...
Science
June 30th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy: 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...
Innovation
June 29th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy: 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...
Science
June 29th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy: 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...
Science
June 20th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy: 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...
Science
June 17th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy: 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...
Public Policy
June 17th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceA 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,...
Science
June 5th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceDear 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...
Technology
May 18th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy Soraya Jamal Published at Burnama on May 18, 2011 16:43 PM KUALA LUMPUR, May 18(Bernama) — When United States President Barack Obama made his first major attempt to improve US relations with the Muslim world in Cairo in...