The place of the rational sciences in Islamic civilisation
THE FACT IS that this idea was simply an ideological position adopted for religious propaganda purposes. It bears no relation…
Loss of causality – a factor in the decline of Muslim science
MUSLIMS, AS WE KNOW, received what we term the intellectual sciences via translations, within the framework of a general and…
Why are we getting more backward? – 2
AL-AZHAR FORMED a ‘Scientific Research Academy’ which specialized in confiscating books critical of Islam or the Companions, instead of actually…
Why are we getting more backward? – 1
THE ARABS THROUGHOUT their known history, have relied on the oral transmission of their experiences, and did not care at…
Taha Hussein – On science and dogma – 2
THE CONTROVERSY RAISED by Taha Hussein’s book goes beyond its subject matter, and its true importance lies in his establishing…
Taha Hussein – On science and dogma – 1
IN THE FACE of a project for scientific enlightenment, a wasted, unrealized possibility persisted. If one of the axioms of…
Islamizing physics
THE ISLAMIC COLLECTIVE imagination is vast enough to give us a feeling that we are finding a way to achieve…
Academic and cultural illiteracy: causes and results
A COUNTRY’S UNDERDEVELOPMENT stems from the failure to nurture the human being, alongside a propensity to lethargy. Japan, for example,…
Redefining Islam in Comparative Religion – 2
EVERY DISCIPLINE in religious phenomenology can shed a revealing light on one or more religious phenomena. For example, religious sociology…
Redefining Islam in Comparative Religion – 1
RELIGIONS THAT HAVE been redefined in the light of comparative religion sciences have largely tamed the tendency towards religious narcissism…