Sight Beyond the Eyes
Mirza Nooruddin AhmadTHE EXISTENCE OF GOD 6th September 2021 The eye is a marvellous creation of Allah the Almighty. The acute skill necessary to treat and work on such a […]
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 […]
Constantine the African and the Qayrawani doctors: Contribution of the ‘Phoenicians’ of North Africa to Latin Medicine in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
by Charles Burnett When a sixteenth-century medical writer referred to Phoenicians, alongside Arabs, as exceptionally important medical sources, he was probably referring to the Muslim and Jewish doctors of Qayrawan, […]
Why Muslims have only few Nobel Prizes
by Mustafa Akyol I am not the greatest fan of Richard Dawkins, the famous Oxford professor, whose passionate atheism looks to me as a dogma in itself rather than freedom from dogmas. Yet I must I admit that he had point recently when he wrote the following on Twitter: “All […]
Islam and science – The road to renewal
Source: economist.com After centuries of stagnation science is making comeback in the Islamic world THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced more scientific papers than […]
After centuries of stagnation science is making a comeback in the Muslim world
Economist: The road to renewal THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims […]
‘Curiosity leads to scientific contributions’-Science in Islam
The Express Tribune: KARACHI: Curiosity and inquisitiveness were the traits which earned earlier Muslim scientists their rightful place in the development of science and these are the two qualities which are missing today. Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy shared these views on Tuesday evening while speaking on “Science in Islam: Past, Present and […]
Science and Religion: Notes on a Lecture by Professor David Kazhdan
Michael Kara-Ivanov. Everything would be simple if we could stop here and conclude that science and religion have nothing in common. Further examination will show, however, that in fact there are similarities in the way we think about these two areas. The opposition between the objective and the […]
Allah can perpetuate night and day: An astronomical analysis
AHMAD WAHAJ SIDDIQUI ARABNEWS Friday 28 December 2012 Scientists know this that the celestial bodies are floating. That includes Earth which is floating with its double rotation – axial and […]
Wind Patterns and the Holy Quran
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page. Promoted post: Use and Misuse of Surah Nur by the Muslims, Before and After Nida Ul […]
Qadian – Quranic science motivates kids to learn Quran
Source: Jagran Qadian, Gurdaspur: Dr Abdul Salam was first Muslim to win Nobel Prize in 1979. Upon felicitation, he expressed that he used to study Quran very attentively and received ideas for his research from Quran itself. He stated that by further working on the ideas conceived from Quran his […]
Support for scientific research rooted in Qur’an and Sunnah, symposium told
By ALI BLUWI | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Support for science and scientists, both financially and morally, is rooted in Qur’an and Sunnah, said professor Saleh bin Mohammed Al-Hassan in his paper: “The Salafist Vision on Backing Science and Scientists.” Al-Hassan was one of the academics who presented their papers on […]
Look to the West for knowledge
Source: NewStraitsTimes Islamic nations should go all out to create conditions that foster academic pursuit in science and technology There was a time when budding Western scholars travelled long distances […]