Islam and science : religious orthodoxy and the battle for rationality
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Islam and science : religious orthodoxy and the battle for rationality
Zed Books, c1991
- pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this book, Dr. Hoodbhoy, a nuclear physicist, eloquently and usefully draws attention to the plight of science and technology in the Muslim world and to the need to do something about it. The book also makes some other helpful insights here and there about why, after centuries of brilliant achievements, science suffered such a fate in the Muslim world. But the book also suffers from some very serious flaws in its view of Islam and analysis of Islamic history.
Table of Contents
Foreword - Mohammed Abdus Salam
Preface
1. Islam and Science: Are They Compatible?
2. Science: Its Nature and Origins
3. The War Between Science and Medieval Christianity
4. The State of Science in Islamic Countries Today
5. Three Muslim Responses to Underdevelopment
6. Bucaille, Nasr and Sardar: Three Exponents of Islamic Science
7. Can There Be An Islamic Science?
8. The Rise of Muslim Science
9. Religious Orthodoxy Confronts Muslim Science
10. Five Great 'Heretics'
11. Why Didn't the Scientific Revolution Happen in Islam?
12. Some Thoughts for the Future
Appendix: They Call It Islamic Science
Index
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