Islam & Science articles from June 2004

Islam & Science archives from June 2004

Taskhir, fine-tuning, intelligent design and the scientific appreciation of nature.
June 22, 2004... The concept of taskhir in the Qur'an refers to the easily observable fact that nature, in both its cosmic and biospheric dimensions, has been constrained by Allah to render service and benefit unto humankind. In modern cosmological terms,...

Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra, The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra, The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003), xxii+386 pp, HB, ISBN 0-262-19482-1 Writing during the formative period of contemporary Western studies of...

Paul Lettinck, Aristotle's Meteorology and its Reception in the Arab World with an Edition and Translation of Ibn Suwar's Treatise on Meteorological Phenomena and Ibn Bajja's Commentary on the Meteorology.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Paul Lettinck, Aristotle's Meteorology and its Reception in the Arab World with an Edition and Translation of Ibn Suwar's Treatise on Meteorological Phenomena and Ibn Bajja's Commentary on the Meteorology (Leiden/Boston/Koln: Brill, 1999),...

Sarah Stroumsa, Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr al-Razi and Their Impact on Islamic Thought.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Sarah Stroumsa, Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rawandi, Abu Bakr al-Razi and Their Impact on Islamic Thought (Leiden/Boston/Koln: Brill, 1999), ix+261 pp, HB, ISBN 90 04 11374 6 Denoting the period around the third-fourth century...

Daniel A. Madigan, The Qur'an's Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam's Scripture.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Daniel A. Madigan, The Qur'an's Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam's Scripture (Princeton: Princeton University Press), xv+236 pp, cloth, ISBN 0-691-05950-0 2001 Islam is frequently characterized as a "religion of the Book". Many...

The state of the international religion-science discussion today: "science and the spiritual quest": a model for the renewal of the religion-science discourse.(The End Matters)(Column)
June 22, 2004... The late 1980's and early 1990's saw an explosion of the global dialogue on science and religion. Both within specific religious traditions and across the traditions, scientists and religious believers engaged in a more sustained, more...

Reflections on some new studies on applied science in Islamic societies (8th-19th centuries).
June 22, 2004... Recent research on Arabic scientific and legal manuscripts, as well as on astronomical instruments, has led to a new understanding of the different ways in which Muslim scholars over many centuries applied scientific methods to determine the...

Ibn Sina--Al-Biruni correspondence.
June 22, 2004... In this third installment of the correspondence between Ibn Sina and al-Biruni, five more questions are asked and answered. Al-Biruni rejects Aristotle's reasoning for his assertion that if the heavens were to be elliptical rather than...

Scientific exegesis of the Qur'an--a viable project?
June 22, 2004... A number of modern Muslim writers see the Qur'an as containing information or knowledge of a scientific nature. They have, accordingly, argued for the viability of what is called tafsir 'ilmi, or scientific exegesis of the Qur'an. This paper...

An unfortunate response: Iqbal on Gutas.(Islam & Science, Vol. 1, 2003, No.2)
June 22, 2004... This rejoinder is a further contribution to the debate begun by M. Iqbal and D. Gutas on the differing perspectives and methodological assumptions of faith-based and secular approaches to the study of the history of science in religious...

Shadhrah 3.
June 22, 2004... A newborn baby hardly begins to breathe the conditioned air of the hospital room into which he or she is ushered with the help of the ubiquitous technologies which now fashion our lives from birth to death before a computer-generated wristband...