Islamic history of science
Imagining the Chinese Typewriter
As we shall see in the next essay, the difficulties of Derrida’s attempt, in Grammatology, to draw upon a figure of China—most likely from the Western canon (or from the Western “process” of thought about China)—while discussing Chinese ideographic writing and, of course, Egyptian hieroglyphs, that is, to rely on a figure such as the characters of Chinese writing, also become evident here.
Fuat Sezgin and The Re-writing of The History of Geography
Introduction When writing his comprehensive oeuvre “Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums” (History of Arabic Writings) in 17 volumes, Fuat Sezgin did ...
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, ...
