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By: Athar Osama
3 October 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Muslim countries need good quality institutions to motivate researchers, argues Athar Osama.
Describing scientific productivity in the 57 countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) as abysmal is perhaps an understatement. More than 1.5 billion Muslims living across the Islamic world — about a quarter of the world’s population […]

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By: Wagdy Sawahel and Ehsan Masood
3 October 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
The Organization of the Islamic Conference is reforming its science programme. But will change lead to better science? Wagdy Sawahel and Ehsan Masood report
“Together, we comprise one quarter of the world’s population; we hold 70 per cent of world’s energy resources, yet almost 86 per cent of […]

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[SciDev.Net published a spotlight on Science in OIC countries in October 2007. The introduction and articles are being pasted below. The complete coverage is available at: http://www.scidev.net/islamic_science] 
The Golden Age of Islam came to a halt in the thirteenth century with the Mongol invasion of much of Asia and Middle East. Since then, the lands that constitute the Muslim world […]

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By Golareh Habibi
In Science Creative Quarterly
At present, when many think of the Middle East, the first word that comes to mind is oil, following close after unfortunately is war. However, the Middle East has a rich history in the development of science. Oddly enough, or perhaps not so strangely, Islam, the prominent religion of Middle […]

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By: Leif Stenberg
University of Lund
This is the unedited paper as given at the Joensuu conference. An updated and edited version has been published in Social Epistemology, x, 3/4, 1996, 273-87. 
In this paper, Lief Steinberg discusses the standpoints of two prominent Muslim personalities in the debate on the Islamization of science. They are the Persian scholar Seyyed Hossein […]

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