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…
The Islamization of Science and its intellectual problem – 4
THERE IS THEREFORE no intellectual obstacle standing in the path of society’s advance towards science, since there have been, and…
The Islamization of Science and its intellectual problem – 3
MU’TAZILI THOUGHT – an Islamic thought – led to a scientific resurgence of huge proportions according to the standards of…
The Islamization of science and its intellectual problem – 2
THE PARADIGM of contemporary science is an intellectual paradigm manifested in scientific thought and its research and professional paradigms. These…
The Islamization of science and its intellectual problem – 1
ISLAMIC THINKERS such as Abū Hamid al-Ghazali, Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and others took a negative position on…
Arab Islamic society and the metaphysical phase
COMTE’S CLASSIFICATION is not definitive in nature and it varies according to the variety of societies that exist, although for…
Is the Qur’ān an encyclopædia of science? (Part 2)
THESE THEMSELVES were founded upon intuition, opinion and observation and themselves did not meet all the conditions of scientific observation. Moreover,…