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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, has been close to my own academic interests for...
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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 fire in the Muslim world. Islamic creationist...
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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 flooded large parts of the delta....
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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 but also intense social work habits. The latter...
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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 assignment. So, only five minutes into the meeting that...
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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 announced plans to build the “Zewail...
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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 mainstream western science...
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February 9th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy Athar Osama 9 February 2011 | EN Islamic nations’ ministerial committee on S&T cooperation must refocus on policy leadership or risk losing relevance, says Athar Osama. Last month, 22 ministers of science, technology and innovation met in Pakistan’s capital,...
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February 1st, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy Ahmed Sultan-Salem Assistant Professor – Alexandria University, Egypt Published on OnIslam.Com on 22 February 2011 Politicians and financial elite in Egypt don’t seem to understand the importance of science and education. Universities are social institutions that...
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December 30th, 2010 | by
MuslimScienceBy Athar Osama Published in SciDev.Net on 3 December 2010 | EN Reforms of science and higher education must deliver results to gain support of society, says science policy specialist Athar Osama. Excellence in higher education and scientific research is not generally attributed...
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