Islamic attitudes towards science (English Wikipedia)

Egyptian Muslim geologist Zaghloul El-Naggar quoted in Science and Islam in Conflict| Discover magazine| 06.21.2007| quote: "Modern Europe's industrial culture did not originate in Europe but in the Islamic universities of Andalusia and of the East. The principle of the experimental method was an offshoot of the Islamic concept and its explanation of the physical world, its phenomena, its forces and its secrets." From: Qutb, Sayyad, Milestones, p. 111, https://archive.org/stream/SayyidQutb/Milestones%20Special%20Edition_djvu.txt
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Adi Setia (2004), "Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi on Physics and the Nature of the Physical World: A Preliminary Survey", Islam & Science, 2, archived from the original on 2012-07-10, retrieved 2010-03-02

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"The 'first true scientist'". January 4, 2009 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
Nafiu Baba Ahmed, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, telling the BBC his opinion of polio and vaccination. In northern Nigeria "more than 50% of the children have never been vaccinated against polio", and as of 2006 where more than half the world's polio victims live. Nigeria's struggle to beat polio, BBC News, 31 March 20

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David A. King (2003). "Mathematics applied to aspects of religious ritual in Islam". In I. Grattan-Guinness (ed.). Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences. Vol. 1. JHU Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780801873966.

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Bilgili, Alper (December 2015). "The British Journal for the History of Science V48:4". The British Journal for the History of Science. 48 (4). Cambridge University Press: 565–582. doi:10.1017/S0007087415000618. PMID 26337528.

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"Reasonable Doubts Podcast". CastRoller. 2014-07-11. Archived from the original on 2013-05-23. Retrieved 2014-07-23.

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Egyptian Muslim geologist Zaghloul El-Naggar quoted in Science and Islam in Conflict| Discover magazine| 06.21.2007| quote: "Modern Europe's industrial culture did not originate in Europe but in the Islamic universities of Andalusia and of the East. The principle of the experimental method was an offshoot of the Islamic concept and its explanation of the physical world, its phenomena, its forces and its secrets." From: Qutb, Sayyad, Milestones, p. 111, https://archive.org/stream/SayyidQutb/Milestones%20Special%20Edition_djvu.txt

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King, David A. (1983). "The Astronomy of the Mamluks". Isis. 74 (4): 531–55. doi:10.1086/353360. S2CID 144315162.
Gandz, Solomon (1938), "The Algebra of Inheritance: A Rehabilitation of Al-Khuwārizmī", Osiris, 5: 319–91, doi:10.1086/368492, ISSN 0369-7827, S2CID 143683763.
Gingerich, Owen (April 1986), "Islamic astronomy", Scientific American, 254 (10): 74, Bibcode:1986SciAm.254d..74G, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0486-74, archived from the original on 2011-01-01, retrieved 2008-05-18
Savage-Smith, Emilie (1995), "Attitudes Toward Dissection in Medieval Islam", Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 50 (1), Oxford University Press: 67–110, doi:10.1093/jhmas/50.1.67, PMID 7876530
Ragep, F. Jamil (2001a), "Tusi and Copernicus: The Earth's Motion in Context", Science in Context, 14 (1–2), Cambridge University Press: 145–63, doi:10.1017/s0269889701000060, S2CID 145372613
Bilgili, Alper (December 2015). "The British Journal for the History of Science V48:4". The British Journal for the History of Science. 48 (4). Cambridge University Press: 565–582. doi:10.1017/S0007087415000618. PMID 26337528.
Mir'atun, Nisa (2023-03-06). "Harun Nasution's Theological View". Asian Journal of Engineering, Social and Health. 2 (2). doi:10.46799/ajesh.v2i2. ISSN 2980-4841.
Gamini, Amir Mohammad (23 August 2018). "Imamate Shiite Ulama and the Modern Astronomy in Qajar Period". Tarikh-e Elm. 16 (1): 65–93. doi:10.22059/jihs.2019.288941.371519. ISSN 1735-0573.
Erdağı, D. Evil in Turkish Muslim horror film: the demonic in “Semum”. SN Soc Sci 4, 27 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00832-w
Erdağı, D. Evil in Turkish Muslim horror film: the demonic in “Semum”. SN Soc Sci 4, 27 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00832-w
Erdağı, D. Evil in Turkish Muslim horror film: the demonic in “Semum”. SN Soc Sci 4, 27 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00832-w
Guessoum, Nidhal (June 2008). "The QUR'AN, SCIENCE, AND THE (RELATED) CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM DISCOURSE". Zygon. 43 (2): 413. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00925.x. ISSN 0591-2385. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
Ansari, Zafar Ishaq (2001). "Scientific Exegesis of the Qur'an / ‮التفسير العلمي للقرآن‬". Journal of Qur'anic Studies. 3 (1): 92. doi:10.3366/jqs.2001.3.1.91. JSTOR 25728019.
Rohani Mashhadi, Farzaneh; Hasanzadeh, Gholamreza (2022). "An Evolutionary Reading of Adam's Creation in the Qur'an with Emphasis on the Concepts of Creation and Selection". Journal of Interdisciplinary Qur'anic Studies. 1 (1): 63–76. doi:10.37264/jiqs.v1i1.4.
Hoodbhoy, Pervez (2005). "When Science Teaching Becomes A Subversive Activity". In Koertge, Noretta (ed.). Scientific Values and Civic Virtues Get access Arrow. Oxford University Press. pp. 215–219. doi:10.1093/0195172256.003.0014. ISBN 0195172256.

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Rohani Mashhadi, Farzaneh; Hasanzadeh, Gholamreza (2022). "An Evolutionary Reading of Adam's Creation in the Qur'an with Emphasis on the Concepts of Creation and Selection". Journal of Interdisciplinary Qur'anic Studies. 1 (1): 63–76. doi:10.37264/jiqs.v1i1.4.

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Hoodbhoy, Perez (2006). "Islam and Science – Unhappy Bedfellows" (PDF). Global Agenda: 2–3. Retrieved 1 July 2015.

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"Contributions of Islamic scholars to the scientific enterprise" (PDF).

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Ali, Shamsher. "Science and the Qur'an" (PDF). In Oliver Leaman (ed.). The Qurʼan: An Encyclopedia. p. 572. Retrieved 13 May 2018.

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https://giftsofknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/hans-wehr-searchable-pdf.pdf Searcheable PDF of the Hans Wehr Dictionary (if that doesn't work check https://archive.org/details/HansWehrEnglishArabicDctionarySearchableFormat/page/n607/mode/2up )

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Adi Setia (2004), "Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi on Physics and the Nature of the Physical World: A Preliminary Survey", Islam & Science, 2, archived from the original on 2012-07-10, retrieved 2010-03-02

gale.com

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"Scientific exegesis of the Qur'an--a viable project?".

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Gingerich, Owen (April 1986), "Islamic astronomy", Scientific American, 254 (10): 74, Bibcode:1986SciAm.254d..74G, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0486-74, archived from the original on 2011-01-01, retrieved 2008-05-18

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Hassan, Ahmad Y. 1996. "Factors Behind the Decline of Islamic Science After the Sixteenth Century." Pp. 351–99 in Islam and the Challenge of Modernity, edited by S. S. Al-Attas. Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
Ahmad Y Hassan, Factors Behind the Decline of Islamic Science After the Sixteenth Century

hurriyetdailynews.com

"Why Muslims have only few Nobel Prizes". Hurriyet. 14 August 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2014.

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Moore, Keith L. "A Scientist's Interpretation of References to Embryology in the Qur'an". Islam 101. Retrieved 11 August 2020.

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Moore, Keith L. (1983). The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Emryology with Islamic Additions. Abul Qasim Publishing House (Saudi Arabia). Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2020.

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Ansari, Zafar Ishaq (2001). "Scientific Exegesis of the Qur'an / ‮التفسير العلمي للقرآن‬". Journal of Qur'anic Studies. 3 (1): 92. doi:10.3366/jqs.2001.3.1.91. JSTOR 25728019.

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Gingerich, Owen (April 1986), "Islamic astronomy", Scientific American, 254 (10): 74, Bibcode:1986SciAm.254d..74G, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0486-74, archived from the original on 2011-01-01, retrieved 2008-05-18

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"BLACK HOLES". miracles of the quran. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
"THE SEQUENCE IN DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN ORGANS". Miracles of the Quran. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
"Mathematical miracles of the Quran". Miracles of the Quran.com. Retrieved 10 August 2020.

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Fancy, Nahyan A. G. (2006), "Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288)", Electronic Theses and Dissertations, University of Notre Dame: 232–33, archived from the original on 2015-04-04, retrieved 2008-06-17
Fancy, Nahyan A. G. (2006), "Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288)", Electronic Theses and Dissertations, University of Notre Dame: 49–59, 232–33, archived from the original on 2015-04-04, retrieved 2008-06-17

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SARDAR, ZIAUDDIN (21 August 2008). "Weird science". New Statesman. Retrieved 11 April 2019.

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Savage-Smith, Emilie (1995), "Attitudes Toward Dissection in Medieval Islam", Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 50 (1), Oxford University Press: 67–110, doi:10.1093/jhmas/50.1.67, PMID 7876530
Bilgili, Alper (December 2015). "The British Journal for the History of Science V48:4". The British Journal for the History of Science. 48 (4). Cambridge University Press: 565–582. doi:10.1017/S0007087415000618. PMID 26337528.
Saadat, Sabiha (January 2009). "Human Embryology and the Holy Quran: An Overview". International Journal of Health Sciences. 3 (1): 103–109. PMC 3068791. PMID 21475518.
von Staden, H. (May–Jun 1992). "The discovery of the body: human dissection and its cultural contexts in ancient Greece". Yale J Biol Med. 65 (3): 223–41. PMC 2589595. PMID 1285450.

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Saadat, Sabiha (January 2009). "Human Embryology and the Holy Quran: An Overview". International Journal of Health Sciences. 3 (1): 103–109. PMC 3068791. PMID 21475518.
von Staden, H. (May–Jun 1992). "The discovery of the body: human dissection and its cultural contexts in ancient Greece". Yale J Biol Med. 65 (3): 223–41. PMC 2589595. PMID 1285450.

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Aljunied, Khairudin (2022-12-16), Aljunied, Khairudin (ed.), "Harun Nasution: The Rationalist", Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia: Muslim Intellectuals and the Making of Islamic Reformism, Oxford University Press, p. 0, ISBN 978-0-19-751441-2, retrieved 2024-12-19

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"Chapter 7: Religion, Science and Popular Culture". Pew Research Center, Religion and Public Life. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2020.

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Saleh, Fauzan. "Modern Trends in Islamic Theological Discourse in Twentieth Century Indonesia: A Critical Survey". www.proquest.com. Retrieved 2024-12-19.

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Claims of the Quran foretelling the roundness of the earth can be found at Windows of Islam.com, citing as evidence
- verse 39:5 "He created the heavens and earth in truth. He wraps the night over the day and wraps the day over the night and has subjected the sun and the moon, each running [its course] for a specified term".^[100]
- "Surah As-Sajdah [32:9]". Surah As-Sajdah [32:9]. Retrieved 2020-08-30.

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"Dr Ahmed Zewail "There is nothing fundamental in Islam against science."". 15 March 2017.

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"'War on Education': Taliban Converting Secular Schools into Religious Seminaries".

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non-Muslim scientists have also found the case for Quranic prescient explanation about embryology lacking. Pharyngula. "Islamic embryology: overblown balderdash". science blogs. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
non-Muslim scientists have also found the case for Quranic prescient explanation about embryology lacking. Pharyngula. "Islamic embryology: overblown balderdash". science blogs. Retrieved 10 August 2020.

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King, David A. (1983). "The Astronomy of the Mamluks". Isis. 74 (4): 531–55. doi:10.1086/353360. S2CID 144315162.
Gandz, Solomon (1938), "The Algebra of Inheritance: A Rehabilitation of Al-Khuwārizmī", Osiris, 5: 319–91, doi:10.1086/368492, ISSN 0369-7827, S2CID 143683763.
Ragep, F. Jamil (2001a), "Tusi and Copernicus: The Earth's Motion in Context", Science in Context, 14 (1–2), Cambridge University Press: 145–63, doi:10.1017/s0269889701000060, S2CID 145372613

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"Religious perspectives on the science of Human Origins - Dr. Mustansir Mir, Ph.D" (PDF).

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"The greatest scientific advances from the Muslim world". TheGuardian.com. February 2010.

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TALIB, ALI (9 April 2018). "Deconstructing the "Scientific Miracles in the Quran" Argument". Transversing Tradition. Retrieved 16 April 2019.

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Yasir Qadhi on video clip linked to Twitter by Abdullah Sameer Yasir Qadhi (25 August 2020). "Abdullah Sameer". Event occurs at 12:56 PM. Retrieved 28 August 2020.

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"Beyond Bucailleism: Science, Scriptures and Faith". Evidence for God's Unchanging World. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2020.

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Gamini, Amir Mohammad (23 August 2018). "Imamate Shiite Ulama and the Modern Astronomy in Qajar Period". Tarikh-e Elm. 16 (1): 65–93. doi:10.22059/jihs.2019.288941.371519. ISSN 1735-0573.

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Hassan, Ahmad Y. 1996. "Factors Behind the Decline of Islamic Science After the Sixteenth Century." Pp. 351–99 in Islam and the Challenge of Modernity, edited by S. S. Al-Attas. Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
Gingerich, Owen (April 1986), "Islamic astronomy", Scientific American, 254 (10): 74, Bibcode:1986SciAm.254d..74G, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0486-74, archived from the original on 2011-01-01, retrieved 2008-05-18
Fancy, Nahyan A. G. (2006), "Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288)", Electronic Theses and Dissertations, University of Notre Dame: 232–33, archived from the original on 2015-04-04, retrieved 2008-06-17
Fancy, Nahyan A. G. (2006), "Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288)", Electronic Theses and Dissertations, University of Notre Dame: 49–59, 232–33, archived from the original on 2015-04-04, retrieved 2008-06-17
"Reasonable Doubts Podcast". CastRoller. 2014-07-11. Archived from the original on 2013-05-23. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
"BLACK HOLES". miracles of the quran. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
Moore, Keith L. (1983). The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Emryology with Islamic Additions. Abul Qasim Publishing House (Saudi Arabia). Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 8 August 2020.

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"Scientific Miracles of the Quran, 19 – Roundness of the Earth". Windows of Islam. Event occurs at 0:55s. Retrieved 9 August 2020.

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Gandz, Solomon (1938), "The Algebra of Inheritance: A Rehabilitation of Al-Khuwārizmī", Osiris, 5: 319–91, doi:10.1086/368492, ISSN 0369-7827, S2CID 143683763.
Mir'atun, Nisa (2023-03-06). "Harun Nasution's Theological View". Asian Journal of Engineering, Social and Health. 2 (2). doi:10.46799/ajesh.v2i2. ISSN 2980-4841.
Gamini, Amir Mohammad (23 August 2018). "Imamate Shiite Ulama and the Modern Astronomy in Qajar Period". Tarikh-e Elm. 16 (1): 65–93. doi:10.22059/jihs.2019.288941.371519. ISSN 1735-0573.
Guessoum, Nidhal (June 2008). "The QUR'AN, SCIENCE, AND THE (RELATED) CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM DISCOURSE". Zygon. 43 (2): 413. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00925.x. ISSN 0591-2385. Retrieved 15 April 2019.

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Haq, Syed (2009). "Science in Islam". Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. ISSN 1703-7603. Retrieved 2014-10-22.

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Golden, Daniel (23 January 2002). "Western Scholars Play Key Role In Touting 'Science' of the Quran". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 27 January 2013.