Format:
1 Online-Ressource (432 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755611072
Content:
Prologue: Averroes and I -- Introduction: Islam and Science Today -- PART I: Fundamentals (First things first): God, the Qur'an, and Science -- Chapter 1: Allah, the Creator and Sustainer -- Chapter 2: The Qur'an and its Philosophy of Knowledge/Science -- Chapter 3: Science and Its Critics -- Chapter 4: Can One Develop an "Islamic Science"? -- Chapter 5: I'jaz - Modern Science in the Qur'an? -- Summary and Conclusions of Part I -- PART II: Islam and Contemporary Science Issues -- Chapter 6: Islam and Cosmology -- Chapter 7: Islam and Design -- Chapter 8: Islam and the Anthropic Principle -- Chapter 9: Islam and Evolution (Human and Biological) -- PART III: Outlook -- Chapter 10: Islam and Science tomorrow Epilogue - A conversation with my students -- Appendix A: Towards an Open-Minded Science (Collective Article) -- Appendix B: The Flaws in 'A New Astronomical Quranic Method for The Determination Of The Greatest Speed C' by Dr. Mansour Hassab-Elnaby -- Appendix C: Survey of 'Science and Religion' Views at the American University of Sharjah, UAE -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"In secular Europe the veracity of modern science is almost always taken for granted. Whether they think of the evolutionary proofs of Darwin or of spectacular investigation into the boundaries of physics conducted by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, most people assume that scientific enquiry goes to the heart of fundamental truths about the universe. Yet elsewhere, science is under siege. In the USA, Christian fundamentalists contest whether evolution should be taught in schools at all. And in Muslim countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Pakistan and Malaysia, a mere 15 per cent of those recently surveyed believed Darwin's theory to be 'true' or 'probably true'. This thoughtful and passionately argued book contends absolutely to the contrary: not only that evolutionary theory does not contradict core Muslim beliefs, but that many scholars, from Islam's golden age to the present, adopted a worldview that accepted evolution as a given. Guessoum suggests that the Islamic world, just like the Christian, needs to take scientific questions - 'quantum questions' - with the utmost seriousness if it is to recover its true heritage and integrity. In its application of a specifically Muslim perspective to important topics like cosmology, divine action and evolution, the book makes a vital contribution to debate in the disputed field of 'science and religion'."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857730756
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848855175
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848855182
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755611072
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