DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published 11.06.2019 Fuat Sezgin founded the Institute for the Arabic-Islamic Sciences, affiliated with Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1982. As part of 2019 Professor Emeritus Fuat Sezgin […]
On the lost Golden Age and the rejection of reason Hillel Ofek Contemporary Islam is not known for its engagement in the modern scientific project. But it is heir to a legendary “Golden Age” of Arabic science frequently invoked by commentators hoping to make Muslims and Westerners more respectful and […]
By: Glen M. Cooper The most obvious difference between modern and Islamic astronomy is that the latter is primarily mathematical and predictive, and the former has other observational goals, […]
by: Jeannie Miller Jeannie Miller, an assistant professor in the department of near & Middle Eastern civilizations, is working on a manuscript examining The Book of Animals by al-Jahiz, a ninth-century Arabic writer and polymath. Al-Jahiz saw himself as a theologian and natural scientist, but is often miscast because of […]
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 […]