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Islam and Science - The Troubled Relationship

September 30th, 2007 · No Comments

By: Ziauddin Sardar
Lecture at the Royal Society, 2007
At the end of the tenth century, a brilliant scientist left his home town of Basra to pursue an ambitious project in Egypt. He’d noticed how, seasonally, the river Nile flooded large parts of the delta. But in winter water levels fell so low cultivation was almost impossible. […]

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Tags: Religious Influences · Relations with West · Science

Ibn Khaldun on the Fate of Islamic Science after the 11th Century

September 30th, 2007 · No Comments

By: Mohamad Abdalla
 Published at: The Free Library (here)
 
Recent studies in the history of Islamic science illustrate that Islam’s contributions were richer and more profound than was previously thought. In their attempt to provide answers to what happened to Islamic science after the eleventh century, historians and scholars construct a simplified model that describes all branches […]

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Tags: Ibn Khaldun · Religious Influences · Relations with West · Science