Islam & Science articles from December 2007

Islam & Science archives from December 2007

The inner dimension of going green: articulating an Islamic deep-ecology.
December 22, 2007... Our interaction with nature is clearly constrained and directed by such foundational ethical precepts as mercy, moderation, and gratitude, which, when systematically understood and applied, result in ecological health. But ethical precepts...

Preserving the semantic structure of Islamic key terms and concepts: Izutsu, al-Attas, and al-Raghib al-Isfahani.
December 22, 2007... This article compares the elucidation of the semantic structure and fixity of a number of key terms and concepts of the Qur'an by two contemporary scholars, Toshihiko Izutsu (1914-1993) and Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (1931--), with that of...

Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Muzaffar Iqbal: Islam, Science, Muslims, and Technology: Seyyed Hossein Nasr in Conversation with Muzaffar Iqbal.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Muzaffar Iqbal: Islam, Science, Muslims, and Technology: Seyyed Hossein Nasr in Conversation with Muzaffar Iqbal Sherwood Park: Al-Qalam Publishing * Selanor: Islamic Book Trust 2007, xii+12 pp., PB $24.95 ISBN...

Brill's Classics in Islam: Volume 1: C. Snouck Hurgronje: Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... BRILL'S CLASSICS IN ISLAM: VOLUME 1 C. Snouck Hurgronje: Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century Leiden * Boston: Brill 2007, xiv+355 pp., HC, Eur 69.00/ US$ 90.00 ISBN 978-90-04-15449-3 The subtitles of this first volume in the...

Brill's Classics in Islam: Volume 2: Franz Rosenthal: Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... BRILL'S CLASSICS IN ISLAM: VOLUME 2: Franz Rosenthal: Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam Leiden * Boston: Brill 2007, xiv+355 pp., HC, Eur 69.00/ US$ 90.00 ISBN 978-90-04-15386-8 He was the most brilliant...

Hamid Parsania: Existence and the Fall: Spiritual Anthropology of Islam.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... Hamid Parsania: Existence and the Fall: Spiritual Anthropology of Islam, translated and annotated by Shuja Ali Mirza London: ICAS Press, 2006, x+198 pp., PB, ISBN 1-904063-23-3 Far from the chaotic modernity of big cities, certain small,...

William C. Chittick: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... William C. Chittick: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2007, xi+159 pp., PB, ISBN 978-1-85168-495-3 In the short introduction to this work,...

Science for humanity: an Islamic perspective.
December 22, 2007... Scientific work is a human activity for understanding how the natural world works and is structured. Why do human beings seek scientific knowledge? Science, by itself, cannot provide the answer. The response comes from a more comprehensive...

Jewels, honey, blindness, and sight.(Qur'n, Jawahir al-Qur'an; The Jewels of the Qur'an)
December 22, 2007... Writing at the dawn of the sixth Islamic century, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali drew attention to the hexagonal structure of the beehive cells in a short treatise on the Qur'n, Jawahir al-Qur'an (The Jewels of the Qur'an). Written at an advanced age,...

Ibn Sina and Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdadi on the origination of the soul (Huduth al-nafs) and the invalidation of its transmigration (Ibtal al-tanasukh).
December 22, 2007... This article presents a comparative survey of Ibn Sina and Abu al-Barakat's views on the problem of the origination of the soul and its transmigration (tanasukh) and contrasts their arguments and interpretations. The article identifies...