THE Holy Quran is the book of guidance. This guidance is for the whole of humankind and covers all activities of human life. Science is an important human activity and is an essential one for the ...

Pervez Hoodbhoy is one of the most eloquent critics of crank science in Islamic culture. In a recent editorial for the Express Tribune in Pakistan, the physicist decried the increasingly popular ...

We may think the charged relationship between science and religion is mainly a problem for Christian fundamentalists, but modern science is also under fire in the Muslim world. Islamic creationist ...

Can Islam and science reconcile?, asks Fatima Agha Al-Hayani, a lecturer and expert on Islamic jurisprudence based in Toledo, Ohio. They were reconciled during Islam’s first 600 years, she reports.

There have been several books published recently touting the historical contributions of Islamic scholars to the early history of science (in the Middle Ages), but fewer assessing the relationship ...

A millennium ago, the Islamic world was civilization’s Science Central, the primary haven for contemplating the cosmos and discerning the natural laws governing physical existence. While the ...

In an article today, he also discusses the work of who he considers the 'first true scientist', al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham: without doubt, another great physicist, who is worthy of ranking up alongside ...

Islamist political parties are taking over from secular ones across the Muslim world. What does this mean for science at home and scientific cooperation with the West? Ehsan Masood investigates. The ...

In the early 7th century, Allah (God) meticulously revealed in the Quran, the process of human development in a comprehensive chronological order. The detailed description, classification and ...

What do Tylenol, schoolyard bullies, chocolate and our self-image have to do with young Somali-Americans from Minnesota ending up in Syria fighting for ISIS, or our ability to prevent a Paris-like ...