Islam & Science articles from June 2005

Islam & Science archives from June 2005

Islamic Science as a scientific research program: conceptual and pragmatic issues.(The End Matters)
June 22, 2005... Islamic Science, Islamization, and the Road Ahead: Conceptual Issues The idea of Islamizing the sciences has become a matter of much passionate discussion and debate among Muslim intellectuals and academicians, including professional...

Alparslan Acikgenc, Islamic Science: Towards a Definition.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Alparslan Acikgenc, Islamic Science: Towards a Definition (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 1996), vi + 106 pp, Pb, ISBN 983 99002 8 5 One of the aims of defining Islamic Science is to generate theoretical understanding of and insight into the nature...

Pietro Croce, Vivisection or Science? An Investigation into Testing Drugs and Safeguarding Health.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Pietro Croce, Vivisection or Science? An Investigation into Testing Drugs and Safeguarding Health (London and New York: Zed Books, 1999), viii + 209 pp, Pb, bibliography, index, ISBN 1 85649 733 X This remarkable book packs a lot of...

Some important questions concerning the relationship between science and religion.
June 22, 2005... This article reports the results of a survey about the relationship between science and religion. Fifty-eight scholars and scientists respond to eight fundamental questions which cover some of the most important areas of science-religion...

Islamic humanism: from silence to extinction: a brief analysis of Abdulkarim Soroush's thesis of evolution and devolution of religious knowledge.
June 22, 2005... In a number of publications Abdulkarim Soroush has sought to propound and defend a thesis, 'the evolution and devolution of religious knowledge' (EDRK), according to which a religion (such as Islam) may be divine and unchanging, but our...

Ibn Sina--al-Biruni correspondence.
June 22, 2005... This fifth installment of the correspondence between Ibn Sina and al-Biruni consists of al-Biruni's objections to the answers he received from Ibn Sina. It seems that al-Biruni was dissatisfied by Ibn Sina's responses to all but two of the...

Science, apricots, and the sacredness of nature.(Shadhrah 5)
June 22, 2005... Islamic scientific tradition is now a non-existent entity, at least in the concrete and physical realm of laboratories. No laboratory in the contemporary world pursues scientific activity anchored in a conceptual framework different from the...

Origin of genetic information and evolution of biological species.
June 22, 2005... Literature on the origin of life and the evolution of diverse forms of life is reviewed to provide an understanding of the current thinking in evolutionary science. There are conspicuous vagaries, inconsistencies and conflicts of ideas in...