Islam & Science articles from December 2004

Islam & Science archives from December 2004

Mehdi Golshani, Issues in Islam and Science.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Mehdi Golshani, Issues in Islam and Science (Tehran: Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, 2004), pp 152, HB, ISBN 964 4226 207 7 The current slow output of writing on Islam and science does not seem to match the growing demand....

Ibn Sina--al-Biruni correspondence (4).
December 22, 2004... In this fourth installment of the correspondence between al-Biruni and Ibn Sina, al-Biruni asks eight more questions. His first question is related to the burning of bodies by radiation reflecting off a flask filled with water. The second...

Reclaiming the Islamic Intellectual Tradition: Islamic Texts Society and its Publications.(Muslim Institutions)
December 22, 2004... In 1981, a small group of scholars established the Islamic Texts Society (ITS) in England to produce English translations of important works of Islamic tradition and to publish new works relevant to contemporary issues concerning Islam and...

Qadi Sa id's introduction to his Tabaqat al-Umam.
December 22, 2004... This article provides a critical assessment of the first chapter of Tabaqat al-Umam of Qadi Sa id al-Andalusi who died at Toledo in 1070 CE. This book is a slender volume of great importance for the history of science in antiquity and early...

Beyond the 'modern': Sa id al-Nursi's view of Science.
December 22, 2004... The advancing tide of Western scientific thought, which began to spread in the Muslim world at the beginning of the nineteenth century, was one of the most pressing challenges faced by Muslim intellectuals of that time and it continues to have...

Shadhrah 4.
December 22, 2004... Why does ice float on water? When al-Biruni asked this question in a letter to Ibn Sina almost a thousand years ago, he did not have the tools now used to study molecular structures, hence he did not know that in a water molecule, two...

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi on physics and the nature of the physical world: a preliminary survey.
December 22, 2004... Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's conception of physics and of the nature of the physical world is explored here through a preliminary survey of a number of his early and late works. Al-Razi defines the three grades of meanings of the term "nature". His...