Islam & Science articles from June 2003

Islam & Science archives from June 2003

Holisitic approach to scientific traditions.
June 1, 2003... There are at least two perspectives which must be taken into consideration when evaluating a scientific tradition; epistemological, because it is the result of an activity of acquiring knowledge, and sociological, because as a tradition it is...

David A. King (1999), World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... David A. King (1999), World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science, Brill/Al-Furqan, Leiden/London, xxix+638 pp, HB, ISBN 90 04 11367 3 If one finds a microchip in a tomb in a...

Does science offer evidence of a transcendent reality and purpose?
June 1, 2003... In this paper, we elaborate on several crucial theological problems dealing with the role of science in providing some evidence for the existence of God and purpose in nature. It has become fashionable to eliminate notions of purpose and goal...

IBN Sina--Al-Biruni correspondence.
June 1, 2003... In this first installment of the translation of the correspondence between Ibn Sina and al-Biruni, al-As'ilah wa'l-Ajwibah, Ibn Sina responds to the first question posed to him by al-Biruni who criticizes reasons given by Aristotle for denying...

Between physics and metaphysics: Mulla Sadra on nature and motion.
June 1, 2003... Mulla Sadra's concept of nature and substantial motion treats many aspects of traditional philosophy and cosmology in a new light. By allowing change in the category of substance (jawhar), Sadra goes beyond the Aristotelian framework followed...

Islam, rationality and science.
June 1, 2003... The debate over the compatibility of Islam and science still continues to invoke responses from basically two opposite camps: those who reject outright the prospect and feasibility of a compromise between religion and science, and those who see...

Islam, science and Muslims.
June 1, 2003... The understanding of the relationship between Islam and science is intimately connected with many foundational issues. In this wide-ranging conversation Seyyed Hossein Nasr shares his ideas, hopes and aspirations for the Islamic polity. How can...

Remembering Muhammad Hamidullah.(Obituary)(Obituary)
June 1, 2003... It was a damp fall morning in Paris. The year was 1983. I had wandered through the streets for almost an hour and had finally found the apartment where Professor Muhammad Hamidullah lived a solitary life. I knocked at the door but there was no...

Reformulating a comprehensive relationship between religion and science: an Islamic perspective.
June 1, 2003... Formulation of the relationship between Islam and science has been confused because of misuse and misunderstanding of key terms and their precise context. Which Islam? Which science? If we are aiming at a science molded in the crucible of...

The end matters.
June 1, 2003... What was Islamic in the Islamic scientific tradition? Science is universal. This is not a postulate, but a basic feature which defines scientific knowledge itself. A scientific result, of whatever kind, can only be fully communicable and...

Shadhrah 1.
June 1, 2003... Blood, oil, and water flow. Science studies these diverse liquids; its discoveries are then used to develop technologies that use these liquids to foster life or eliminate it. All religious traditions view blood, oil and water from their...