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Atomism versus hylomorphism in the kalam of al-Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: a preliminary survey of the Matalib al-'Aliyyah.
December 22, 2006... Hylomorphism (theory of matter and form) and atomism (theory of atoms and accidents) have been the two main Islamic physical theories attempting to account for the structure of the world, the former defended by the philosophers (falasifah) and...
The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture.(The Individual and Society in Islam)(Science and Technology in Islam, Part I and II)(Culture and Learning in Islam)(Book review)
December 22, 2006... The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture
Volume 2: The Individual and Society in Islam A. Bouhdiba (Chief Editor) and M. Ma'ruf al-Dawalibi (Co-Editor) Paris: UNESCO 1998, 484 pp, HC ISBN 92-3-102742-5
Volume 4: Science and Technology...
Muhammad Ali Khalidi (ed.): Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Muhammad Ali Khalidi (ed.): Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 186 pp, PB ISBN 0 521 52963 8
The aim of this anthology is to provide "a representative sample of the Arabic-Islamic...
Gad Freudenthal: Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Gad Freudenthal: Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum Collected Studies Series, 2005, 374 pp, HC ISBN 0-86078-952-7
Each new volume in Ashgate's Variorum Collected Studies Series provides...
William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton (eds.): Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton (eds.): Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press 2001, 443 pp, HC ISBN 0-262-14075-6
To the modern mind, uttering the word "alchemy"...
IBN Sina--Al-Biruni correspondence--VII.
December 22, 2006... This seventh instalment of the correspondence between Ibn Sina and al-Biruni continues the reply of Abu Said al-Ma'sumi, one of Ibn Sina's most accomplished students. Responding to the third objection of al-Biruni, al-Ma'sumi explains Ibn...
Reading the signs: a Qur'anic perspective on thinking.
December 22, 2006... This essay advances a perspective on the Qur'anic conception of thinking, rationality, and critical reason. It begins with a discussion of the divine signs, the ayat, and the prominent profile that they take in the Qur'anic conception of...
In the beginning: Islamic perspectives on cosmological origins--II.
December 22, 2006... How did the cosmos come into existence? When? With what? How did the material for its creation come into existence? Is there an end to this beginning? These questions about the origin of the universe and its composition are foundational; they...
On the question of biological origins.
December 22, 2006... Keywords: Biological origins; Islamic perspectives on theory of evolution; Darwinism; life forms; Qur'anic view of life; Islamic philosophy and evolution; biology; Muslims and Western science.
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Bismi' Llahir-Rahmanir-Rahim...
On the sanctity of species.
December 22, 2006... Precision, verification, and repeatability are the hallmarks of modern science. Over the last three hundred years it has developed tools and methods which allow scientists to conduct experiments dealing with quantities as small as a picogram...