Islam & Science articles from June 2007

Islam & Science archives from June 2007

Ibn Khaldun on the fate of Islamic science after the 11th century.
June 22, 2007... Recent studies in the history of Islamic science illustrate that Islam's contributions were richer and more profound than was previously thought. In their attempt to provide answers to what happened to Islamic science after the eleventh...

Three meanings of Islamic science: toward operationalizing Islamization of science.
June 22, 2007... The twin historical and philosophical meanings of Islamic science are to be integrated into a third operative, programmatic meaning pertaining to the systemic reapplication of Islamic cognitive and ethical values to science and technology in...

Walid A. Saleh: The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition: The Qur'an Commentary of Al-Tha'labi.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Walid A. Saleh: The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition: The Qur'an Commentary of Al-Tha'labi Leiden*Boston: Brill 2004, x+267 pp., HC $122.00 ISBN 90 04 12777 1 One of the most apparent characteristics of Orientalism is its...

Andrew J. Lane: A Traditional Mu'tazilite Qur'an Commentary: The Kashshaf of Jar Allah al-Zamakhshari.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Andrew J. Lane: A Traditional Mu'tazilite Qur'an Commentary: The Kashshaf of Jar Allah al-Zamakhshari Leiden*Boston: Brill 2006, xxiii+418 pp., HC $183.00 ISBN 90 04 14700 4 Divided into five chapters, a brief conclusion, and eight...

The Islamic perspective on the environmental crisis: Seyyed Hossein Nasr in Conversation with Muzaffar Iqbal.(The End Matters)(Discussion)
June 22, 2007... Keywords: Environmental crisis; science, technology and the environment; Islamic perspectives on environment; Scientific Revolution; Western civilization; Muslim world. Bismi'Llahir-Rahm'nir-Rahim (In the Name of Allah, the most Gracious,...

Ibn Sina--al-Biruni correspondence-VIII.
June 22, 2007... This provisional translation of the correspondence between Ibn Sina and al-Biruni (al-As'ilah wa'l-ajwibah) contains the complete text of the response of Abu Said al-Ma'sumi to the objections of al-Biruni regarding the set of eight questions...

Psychology, eschatology, and imagination in Mulla Sadra Shirazi's commentary on the hadith of awakening.
June 22, 2007... This article examines the most salient aspects of the commentary upon the well-known 'hadith of awakening' by the famous Safavid philosopher, Mulla Sadra Shirazi. In the context of his commentary upon this tradition, Sadra discusses the nature...

Need for a new science.(Shadhrah 9)
June 22, 2007... In the northern regions of the Earth the arrival of spring is marked by golden rays of early morning light passing between the leaves which have just burst forth on branches of trees awaking from their winter hibernation. Bidding its long...