Religion aims at moral purification of humans, so that they may render themselves eligible for an eternal life with God (Quran 87:14-17) [a] . With this aim in view, various secular matters/facts are...
Message to Muslims for the end of Ramadhan ‘Id al-fitr 1422 AH/2001 AD by Cardinal Francis Arinze, president, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, 00120 Citta del Vaticano, pcid-officeinter...
Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science? The answers to these questions have, for centuries, given rise to considerable...
The following article by Albert Einstein appeared in the New York Times Magazine on November 9, 1930, pp 1-4. Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of...
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an irreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was t...
In this paper 1 , I venture to explain the thesis that not only Islam and science are inseparable from each other but also that in the present age, science is the most effective medium for the propaga...
The integration of science and religion is one of the major issues of our age. Some thinkers believe that their integration is possible and necessary while others contend that the two are inherently d...
This paper was prepared for the 9th Annual Conference of Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum held in 1997 at Abbotabad, (Pakistan). Science has increased food production, controlled diseases, globa...
An atmosphere of free investigation is essential to the progress of science. In former times, however, such an atmosphere was extremely rare, thanks to various kinds of man-made beliefs. There were ma...
Arab Enterprize In Ifriqiyah, Siqilliyah and Andalusia On the downfall of Qurtubah, a number of provincial cities (seats of petty kingdoms) like Seville, Toledo and Granada rose into power and became...
Arab Enterprize in Ifriqiyah, Siqilliyah and Andalusia Arab conquest of North Africa began after ‘Uqbah Ibni Nafi’ built Al-Qayrawan in 670 AD, at the site of old Carthage. Harun-ur-Rashid appointed I...
Mechanical Contrivances and Military Science The Arabs and their immediate Muslim successors to the mastery of the civilized world do not seem to have added very much to the engineering sciences they...
‘Belles-Lettres,’ Religious Literature and Philosophy In this brief sketch it is impossible to do more than just mention a few outstanding works on Arabic literature (sacred and secular). Abu-Al-Aswad...
Search for knowledge, desire for Haj and interest in trade and innate propensity to see the world and explore its marvels led the Arabs to contribute immensely to geographical science. They travelled...
When the Saljuqs began to dominate over the Abbasid Khalifah (on the downfall of Buwayids) a fresh impetus was given to the pursuit of astronomical studies. Jalal Uddin Malik Shah summoned at his new...
Partronage at the Eastern Provincial Courts When the power of the ‘Abbasid Khalifahs weakened in the provinces and distant governors began to wield more or less unrestricted authority, scientific inqu...
Modern research has established the fact that the human race built up its civilisation some six thousand years ago on the banks of the Shattal-Arab and the Nile; whence it spread gradually through var...
