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Is There Such a Thing as Islamic Science?
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Is There Such a Thing as Islamic Science?

September 2nd, 2007 | by MuslimScience
By Golareh Habibi In Science Creative Quarterly At present, when many think of the Middle East, the first word that comes to mind is oil, following close after unfortunately is war. However, the Middle East has a rich history in the development of science. Oddly... Read More
Islamic World Faces Intellectual Stagnation
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Islamic World Faces Intellectual Stagnation

August 2nd, 2007 | by MuslimScience
By: Riaz Hassan The Jakarta Post (Published on November 4, 2006) Is the Islamic world intellectually stagnating? One way to answer this is to ask how many world-class universities there are in Muslim countries. Riaz Hassan discusses the 2006 rankings of the world’s top 200... Read More
Science and Islam in Conflict
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Science and Islam in Conflict

July 2nd, 2007 | by MuslimScience
By Todd Pitock Published in Discover Magazine – July 2007 All over the world, no matter what the cultural or language differences, science is more or less guided by scientific principles—except in many Islamic countries, where it is guided by the Koran. This is the... Read More
The Islamization of Science: Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Ziauddin Sardar
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The Islamization of Science: Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Ziauddin Sardar

July 2nd, 2007 | by MuslimScience
By: Leif Stenberg University of Lund This is the unedited paper as given at the Joensuu conference. An updated and edited version has been published in Social Epistemology, x, 3/4, 1996, 273-87. In this paper, Lief Steinberg discusses the standpoints of two prominent Muslim... Read More
Three Views of Science in the Islamic World
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Three Views of Science in the Islamic World

June 2nd, 2007 | by MuslimScience
By: Ibrahim Kalin Published at MuslimPhilosopy.com There is hardly any subject as vexed and vital for the contemporary Islamic world as the question of modern science. Since its earliest encounter with modern Western science in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Islamic world has... Read More