Islamic history of science

Response of Muslim Scholars to Modern Science

Mehdi Golshani

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

Alparslan Açıkgenç

This short essay is not going to attempt a detailed analysis of violence, neither from the perspective of human and ...

Al-Ghazali and Wittgenstein on the limits of philosophy

Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kalın

Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, lived two lives. The first was when he ...

Islamic Philosophy, Prophetic Intelligence, And THe Ai Agenda

Osman Bakar

In my article titled ‘The Clash of Artificial and Nat ural Intelligences: Will It Impoverish Wisdom?’, which appeared in the ...

The Forgetfulness of Man

Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

“The seat of knowledge in man is a spiritual substance which is variously referred to in the Holy Qur’an sometimes ...

How do We Know?

Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

Knowledge is the light by which everything else is made manifest and ready for the correct and proper understanding by ...

Generalizations on Concepts

Rasim Özdenören

There is no doubt that we think with concepts. A “concept” is the expression of defined thoughts with determined frameworks. ...

On Migrating to Lands of Melancholy

Abdal Hakim Murad

Pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling,At their return, up the high strand,Begin, and cease, and then again beginWith ...

Suffering as Surrender

Hamza Yusuf

And We will indeed test you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth, souls, and fruits; and ...