Mulims and Technology
Pervez Hoodbhoy Updated 02 Jan 2021 The writer is an Islamabad-based physicist and writer. EXCEPT for some defiant holdouts, most Muslims have come to accept the printing press, loudspeaker, weather […]
Why Muslim nations have regressed – Part II
4th December 20200 Ibn Rasheed, UK Muslims have regressed but believers have not When a prophet appears, disbelievers are often at the height of power and glory – and also the height of arrogance and evil. They have power, wealth and resources. The prophet has absolutely nothing but a band […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community organizes 6th Annual Quran & Science Conference 2019
Source: ahmadiyyaarchive.org
World without Muslims
Source: Dr Syed Basharat of Germany Ian Bremmer, a Political Scientist and a University professor highlighted an important point that overall, Muslims account for just 0.00625%. Moreover, he had a […]
Abdur Rahman I: The beginning of the glory of Muslim Spain
Source: Daily Times By Akbar Ahmed, who is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, Washington, DC, and author of Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity Let […]
Ramadan, Fasting and the FIFA World Cup
Ramadan, Fasting and the FIFA World Cup By Gary Meenaghan 11 June 2018 For Muslims around the world, Thursday is expected to be the last day of Ramadan, yet for players of Saudi Arabia’s national team, the date takes on added significance. The Green Falcons will kick off the FIFA […]
Manuscript Review: The Catalogue (Al Fihrist), by Al-Nadim
By: N.A. Baloch AL-FIHRIST is to be regarded the first standard subject-wise ‘catalogue’ covering all areas of knowledge… Figure 1. Ibn al-Nadim ابن النديم الفهرست Muslim Masterminds (Source) *** Editor’s Note: The […]
Islamic Rationalism
By Dr Imadaldin Al-Jubouri, 13 November 2017 The early period of rationalism in Islamic thought was led by a school of thinkers known as the Mutazilites (‘isolationists’), in the second half of the first century of Islam (7th Century, CE). It is very difficult to research the Mutazilites’ early years […]
Answering your questions on Islam
GO TO: http://www.islamicfaq.org/ Islam and Other Religions What is Islam’s view about Jews? Are non-Muslims allowed inside Mosques ? Who is a Caliph and how is he chosen? What do Muslims believe about past Prophets and scriptures? What is the punishment for apostasy in Islam? What is the punishment […]
Why Muslims should not fear science
Source: Arab News By Nidhal Guessoum, who is a professor of physics and astronomy at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. A new trend has developed and grown fast in the Arab world: People rejecting basic scientific knowledge on the grounds that it comes from the West (which “cannot be […]
The Story of Mathematics
Source: Muslim Heritage By Sairah Yassir-Deane During the Cheltenham Science Festival from 6 – 11 June 2017, a panel on “The Story of Math” took place. Professors Mona Siddiqui, Mohamed […]
Amazing Mechanical Devices from Muslim Civilisation
by: Cem Nizamoglu Fully automated environmentally friendly water raising devices, pumps, windmills and more! Discover some of the most facinating devices from the Golden Age of Muslim Civilisation that brought creative innovative ideas helping to drive agriculture and industries from southern Spain to China Note: Composed by Cem Nizamoglu and […]
Why Do Muslims Fast?
Source:/www.academia.edu Certain truths are by nature evident and need not be discussed in normal circumstances. But,in a day and age when the most evident truths are shrouded by the clouds of doubts and questioned, one is forced to discuss even the most obvious of them. One such truth is the necessity for […]
Dubai’s ruler wrote an open letter about science … and it went viral
By Jason Lemon; Managing Editor An open letter by Dubai’s ruler highlighting the importance of science and innovation has gone completely viral, receiving tens of millions of views on social […]
Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi the Great Surgeon
by: Ibrahim Shaikh Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (936-1013 CE), also known in the West as Albucasis, was an Andalusian physician. He is considered as the greatest surgeon in […]
Islamic Foreshadowing of Evolution
Paul S. Braterman …in this article, I will summarise the key elements of the modern science of evolution, and the reasons why the evidence in its favour is generally regarded among scientists as conclusive, before turning to my main theme, which is the extent to which Muslim scholars anticipated key […]
Abu Zayd Al Balkhi: The 9th Century Psychologist Centuries Ahead of His Time
by Tamim Mobayed Abu Zayd al-Balkhi was a 9th century Muslim polymath, whose writings touched on subjects as varied as geography, medicine, philosophy, theology, politics, poetry, ethics, sociology, grammar, literature and astronomy. Born in 849 CE (235 AH) in the Persian village of Shamisitiyan, within the Balkh (from which he gets […]
Abdus Salam: the real story of Pakistan’s Nobel prize winner
HASHAM CHEEMA A star is born Abdus Salam’s birth certificate. Source – ICTP Photo Library On the 29th of January 1926, Chaudhry Muhammad Hussein and Bibi Hajira Hussien had a baby boy at their two-bedroom abode in Jhang. They named him Abdus Salam; ‘servant of peace’. “I was born in […]
Cooper Hewitt to Present “Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection”
Exhibition on View April 7 Through Aug. 27 January 25, 2017 “Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection” at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will feature more than 100 extraordinary examples of luxury cigarette and vanity cases, compacts, clocks and other […]
Survival by Accident or Design?
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth Mirza Tahir Ahmad Survival by Accident or Design? HE ISSUE of the survival of all living creatures is not as easy and simple as normally understood by the Darwinian cliché of the ‘Survival of the Fittest’. This term can only be understood in depth when […]
