Islam & Science articles from June 2006

Islam & Science archives from June 2006

In the beginning: islamic perspectives on cosmological origins.
June 22, 2006... How did the cosmos come into existence? When? Is there an end to this beginning? Cosmology, the science which studies the creation of the cosmos, can be divided into several categories. Philosophical reflection on the origins created a...

The question of cosmogenesis--the cosmos as a subject of scientific study.
June 22, 2006... Islamic thought has always considered the question of cosmogenesis to be religious and metaphysical, not merely extrapolation of the natural sciences. A constant feature of Islamic schools of thought has been the basic ontological dependence...

Unseen and visible.(anthropology, ontology, and epistemology)
June 22, 2006... The concordance between anthropology, ontology, and epistemology yields a coherent view of the cosmos. In the religious outlook centred around tawhid all that exists in the physical and metaphysical domains finds a natural place in a vertical...

Descent and manifestation.(religion and science)
June 22, 2006... A qualitative difference between descent as manifestation (tajalli) and descent as displacement (tajafi) separates movement into and within the corporeal world. This difference is nuanced as it is applied to various states of being and domains...

King, David, In Synchrony with the Heavens, Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... King, David, In Synchrony with the Heavens, Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization Volume One: The Call of the Muezzin (Leiden * Boston: Brill 2004), lvii+930 pp., HC $199.00 ISBN 90 04...

Bron R. Taylor et al, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Bron R. Taylor et al, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature London * New York: Thoemmes Continuum 2005, HC, 2 vols., 1827 pp. $450.00 ISBN 1 84371 138 9 For an encyclopedia devoted to an exploration of the "relationships between human...

The alpha and omega.(Shadhrah 7)
June 22, 2006... He is the First (al-Awwal) and the last (al-Akhir), the Qur'an tells us regarding Him Who is the Manifest (al-Zahir) and the Hidden (al-Batin). These Most Beautiful Names (al-asma' al-husna) of Allah have remained the focus of Muslims ever...