September 23rd, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By Rashid Iftikhar In a nutshell, Muslim history began with the scientific golden age (800-1250), followed up by a total collapse in the scientific arena for seven hundred years and now in the twentieth century, there are efforts...
September 16th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By Jamshed Arslan In a 2013 Hollywood movie, Turbo , there is a scene where the hero of the movie, a snail, looks up into the sky and sees a strange bright light. He thinks it is a comet and starts praying because he believes...
September 15th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience Food security has slowly, but markedly improved during the past year. Approximately 842m people today are estimated to be experiencing chronic hunger, down from 868m a year ago—an almost 3% decline. This caps a quarter of a...
September 9th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By Ingrid Margarita Florez Fortich The relationship between religion and science is a very controversial one. The antagonism between Christianity and science is well known and documented, being the case of Galileo Galilei and...
September 2nd, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By: Saher Hasnain The sustainability, health and ethics of the global food system are an increasingly relevant topic of research and policy. Changes in the world’s food system have been incredibly dramatic in the past few...
September 2nd, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By Sameh Soror Humankind is facing big challenges in the form of Energy, water, poverty, education etc. The first millennium development goal (MDGs) as identified by the UN , was eradicating extreme poverty and hunger. To...
September 2nd, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By Paula Hammond It may look harmless – pretty even – but in the wheat belt that stretches from Morocco to Turkey, it’s a sign of ruined crops and dashed hopes. It’s known as yellow rust, but to farmers in the...
September 2nd, 2014 | by
MuslimScience Welcome to localhost/muslim’s exciting issue on “Science & Food Security in the Muslim World.” According to WHO, food security is “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to...
August 2nd, 2014 | by
MuslimScience Welcome to localhost/muslim’s Special Issue on Water Challenges in the Islamic World. “Water: a source of life, production and destruction. Water is a source of life, livelihoods and prosperity. It is an input to almost...
August 2nd, 2014 | by
MuslimScience Famed for its luxury apartments, shopping malls and lush, green golf courses, Saudi Arabia’s capital city, Riyadh, flies in the face of everything we think we know about the parched, desert-locked Middle East. However, the very...