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Science and Islam Science and religion have intersected in many ways throughout history - from the trials of Galileo to contemporary debates over stem cell research and the teaching of evolution in schools. This book provides students and lay readers with an overview of the complex manner in which science and religion have influenced each other over the years. Full description
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"This is an excellent book. It is a model for any studies on the relation of a particular religious tradition to science." - Catholic Library World
"[The author] has an agreeably caustic and aggressive approach to outdated and erroneous ideas about the history of science. The book is a polemical essay, rather than a history, and welcome as such." - Times Literary Supplement [TLS]
"Scientist, Islamic scholar, novelist, and poet Iqbal first explains why the two-entity model of science and religion developed to analyze Western Christianity does not apply to Islam. Then he explores such questions as what was Islamic in Islamic science, whether there were tensions within the Islamic tradition that may have inhibited the full blossoming of scientific activity, how Islamic scientific knowledge was passed to Europe, and what new facets of the relationship between science and Islam have appeared in the post-Scientific Revolution era." - SciTech Book News
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"[The author] has an agreeably caustic and aggressive approach to outdated and erroneous ideas about the history of science. The book is a polemical essay, rather than a history, and welcome as such." - Times Literary Supplement [TLS]
"Scientist, Islamic scholar, novelist, and poet Iqbal first explains why the two-entity model of science and religion developed to analyze Western Christianity does not apply to Islam. Then he explores such questions as what was Islamic in Islamic science, whether there were tensions within the Islamic tradition that may have inhibited the full blossoming of scientific activity, how Islamic scientific knowledge was passed to Europe, and what new facets of the relationship between science and Islam have appeared in the post-Scientific Revolution era." - SciTech Book News
Science and religion have intersected in many ways throughout history - from the trials of Galileo to contemporary debates over stem cell research and the teaching of evolution in schools. Many people believe that science and religion are always in conflict with each other, but the volumes in this series show that this is not necessarily so. "The Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion" provides students and lay readers with a balanced, accessible overview of the complex manner in which science and religion have influenced each other over the years - in both positive and negative ways - and continue to do so today. Each volume provides: overview chapters that explore how a religious tradition - its ideas, attitudes, practices, and institutions - has interacted with a scientific discipline; annotated primary source documents that show readers what influential scientists and theologians actually thought and wrote; a timeline of significant events; and an annotated bibliography that provides resources for more in-depth research on the topic.
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- PublisherGreenwood
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0313335761
- ISBN 13 9780313335761
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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