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Islam's Quantum Question

Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science

By: Nidhal Guessoum

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Islam's Quantum Question

Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science

By: Nidhal Guessoum

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'.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Islam and Science

Past, Present, and Future Debates

By: Nidhal Guessoum,Stefano Bigliardi

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Islam and Science

Past, Present, and Future Debates

By: Nidhal Guessoum,Stefano Bigliardi

This first Element in the series Islam and the Sciences is introductory and aims to give readers a general overview of the wide and rich scope of interactions of Islam with the sciences, including past disputes, current challenges, and future outlooks. The Element introduces the main voices and schools of thought, adopting a historical approach to show the evolution of the debates: Khan's naturalism, al-Jisr's hermeneutics, Abduh's modernist Islam, Nasr's perennialist and sacred science, al-Attas's Islamic science, Sardar and the Ijmalis' ethical science, al-Faruqi's Islamization of knowledge/science, Bucaille's and El-Naggar's 'miraculous scientific content in the Qur'an,' Abdus Salam's universal science, Hoodbhoy's and Edis's secularism, and the harmonization of the 'new generation.' The Element also maps out new and emerging topics that are beginning to reignite the debates, before a concluding section examines how issues of Islam and Science are playing out in the media, in public discourse and in education.

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Cambridge University Press

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Islam's Quantum Question

Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science

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Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science

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The Young Muslim's Guide to Modern Science

By: Nidhal Guessoum

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The Young Muslim's Guide to Modern Science

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This book is the first of its kind. It is accessible and easy to read; it is as if you are having a conversation with the author. The book addresses challenges we face today in schools and everyday life. It is comprehensive without being too detailed. It gives a road map, a guide for how to handle controversial issues in science and Islam.

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1912356015

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Islam and Science

Past, Present, and Future Debates

By: Nidhal Guessoum,Stefano Bigliardi

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Past, Present, and Future Debates

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Islam's Quantum Question

Islam's Quantum Question

Islam and Science

Islam and Science

Islam's Quantum Question

Islam's Quantum Question

The Young Muslim's Guide to Modern Science

The Young Muslim's Guide to Modern Science

Islam and Science

Islam and Science

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