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Conservatives are more open to challenging the content of science, especially when science appears to support materialist views. Islamists promote an alternative, non-western style of modernity, nurturing a more pious professional class that contrasts with westernized elites.
Oct 25, 2024 · A: When I started my Ph.D., my supervisor, who was an atheist, kept asking me questions about Islam—and I did not know about Islam. So that kind of forced me to evaluate what Islam is. The other thing that happened was I joined the Islamic Society. I was kind of thrown into disarray because I was going through a journey, exploring Islam.
Jun 19, 2024 · For the modernist stream, “Islamic science” is only universal science practiced by scientists who happen to be Muslims. For the reconstruction stream, “Islamic science” has to be “rebuilt” from Islamic principles, in the prospect of the needs of Islamic societies.
Islam and Islamic civilization cannot adopt modern science seriously without rejection, as well as absorption, without what one might call judicious adaptation and absorption, based on the principles and nature of the living reality which is performing the act of adopting and absorbing.
The physicist Abdus Salam believed there is no contradiction between Islam and the discoveries that science allows humanity to make about nature and the universe; and that the Quran and the Islamic spirit of study and rational reflection was the source of extraordinary civilizational development.
1. What is the Relation between Science and Religion in the Islamic worldview? In the Islamic outlook, science and religion have the same metaphysical base, and the goal of both revealed and acquired knowledge is to discover God's signs and attributes. Thus, one can consider scientific activity as a part of the
er the causes of the rise and fall of Muslim civilization, particularly in the realms of science and technology. This study attempts to highlight the achievements of contemporary Muslim scientists, identify reasons for the need for advancement of scientific research in Muslim nations, and suggest ways to overcome the.
