Islam and Science (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Iqbal, Muzaffar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138718866 ISBN 13: 9781138718869

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2002. This text seeks to provide the necessary background for understanding the contemporary relationship between Islam and modern science. Presenting an authentic discourse on the Islamic understanding of the physical cosmos, Muzaffar Iqbal explores God's relationship to the created world and the historical and cultural forces that have shaped and defined Muslim attitudes towards science. What was Islamic in the Islamic scientific tradition? How was it rooted in the Qur'anic worldview and whatever happened to it? These are some of the facets of this account of a tradition that spans eight centuries and covers a vast geographical region. Written from within, this ground-breaking exploration of some of the most fundamental questions in the Islam and science discourse, explores the process of appropriation and transformation of the Islamic scientific tradition in Europe during the three centuries leading up to the Scientific revolution.

About this title

About the Author:

Muzaffar Iqbal is the President of the Center for Islam and Science (www.cis-ca.org), Canada. A scientist by training, an Islamic scholar by vocation, a novelist and a poet, his previous works include Islam and Science (2002) and God, Life, and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives (co-editor, 2002).

Review:

"This is an excellent book. It is a model for any studies on the relation of a particular religious tradition to science." - Catholic Library World

"[The author] has an agreeably caustic and aggressive approach to outdated and erroneous ideas about the history of science. The book is a polemical essay, rather than a history, and welcome as such." - Times Literary Supplement [TLS]

"Scientist, Islamic scholar, novelist, and poet Iqbal first explains why the two-entity model of science and religion developed to analyze Western Christianity does not apply to Islam. Then he explores such questions as what was Islamic in Islamic science, whether there were tensions within the Islamic tradition that may have inhibited the full blossoming of scientific activity, how Islamic scientific knowledge was passed to Europe, and what new facets of the relationship between science and Islam have appeared in the post-Scientific Revolution era." - SciTech Book News

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138718866
• ISBN 13: 9781138718869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372