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Belief in Dialogue: Science, Culture, and Modernity
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Belief in Dialogue: Science, Culture, and Modernity

June 30th, 2011 | by 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,...
Does Islam Stand Against Science?
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Does Islam Stand Against Science?

June 30th, 2011 | by 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...
Islam and Science – The Troubled Relationship
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Islam and Science – The Troubled Relationship

June 30th, 2011 | by 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...
Complex Islamic response to evolution emerges from study
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Complex Islamic response to evolution emerges from study

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...
Science and the Islamic World – The Quest for a Reproachment
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Science and the Islamic World – The Quest for a Reproachment

June 29th, 2011 | by 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...
Petrodollar Science
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Petrodollar Science

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...
Egypt Announces Zewail Science City Plans
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Egypt Announces Zewail Science City Plans

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...
Islam Analysis (8): Share knowledge with informal networks
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Islam Analysis (8): Share knowledge with informal networks

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,...
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Launching localhost/muslim

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...
Unlocking Potential Of Science And Technology Through Diplomacy
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Unlocking Potential Of Science And Technology Through Diplomacy

May 18th, 2011 | by MuslimScience
By 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...