Islamic history of science

Losing our sense of the mind and heart
The virtual world in which we are living in this phase of late modernity has created an alternative reality where ...

Race for civilization
The last big debate over civilization was triggered over two decades ago by Samuel Huntington’s book, “The Clash of Civilizations ...

The Poverty of Knowledge Synthesis in the Modern Muslim University Implications for the Future Muslim Mind
By Osman Bakar PhD Twentieth-century modern thought was largely shaped by the analytical philosophical tradition. This tradition still thrives in ...

Holistic approach to scientific traditions
There are at least two perspectives which must be taken into consideration when evaluating a scientific tradition; epistemological, because it ...

Religious and Scientific Instrumentalism: Deadlocks and Search for Solutions
The aim of the following article is to provide a descriptive evaluation of the fundamental claims and assumptions of scientific ...

The Problem of the Criterion of Civilization: Primitiveness and Civility
In post-Enlightenment Western thought, the word civilization has been attributed various meanings and has especially been used as the opposite ...

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, ...

Response of Muslim Scholars to Modern Science
In the Muslim world, there were four kinds of responses to modern science. The Impact of Modern Science on Islamic ...

An Evaluation of Violence from Islam’s Perspective
This short essay is not going to attempt a detailed analysis of violence, neither from the perspective of human and ...