Science and Philosophy

A comprehensive intellectual introduction to Islam. It takes the reader through a fascinating journey of Islamic spirituality, jurisprudence, theology, science, and philosophy. This book gives a sound grasp of Islam to Western readers: intellectuals, politicians, religious community leaders, and students.

This book discusses the principles behind the different sciences cultivated in the Islamic world from the third century of the Islamic era onwards and the place of science in relation to the other branches of Islamic learning.

The first work of its kind in English. An indepth study of the classification of knowledge in Islam according to Al-Farabi, Al-Ghazzali, and Al-Shirazi.

This work includes an in-depth survey of the individual Islamic sciences from cosmology, philosophy, theology to alchemy, physics, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine.

This is the legendary book of Imam al-Ghazali that buried philosophy in the Muslim world for a hundred years.

What was the status of science in the world at the dawn of Islam? How were the Persian, Indian, and Greek science and medicine transferred to the Muslim world? What were the contributions of Muslims scientists? What were the distinguishing features of Muslim medicine? How did Muslim science and medicine compare with their counterparts in the 9th through the 13th centuries CE? This book discusses these questions with facts and affirms that Europe owes its science to Islam.

The author was a research scholar at Hamdard University and dean of Urdu Science University in Karachi.

Here is the original book of Al-Khawarizmi, the founder of the discipline of algebra. Contains the Arabic book as well as its English translation and comments. Belongs in every school library.

This little book brings together various Muslim scientists who were pioneers in many scientific discoveries. Fully illustrated and gives a snapshot of Muslim scientists and inventors in various fields such as Mathematics, Astronomy, Medicine, Botany, Physics, etc.

This book brings into sharp relief important dilemmas faced by the Muslim world today, especially in reference to modern science and technology . . .

This book highlights the facts that were not known before the turn of the 20th century and have just started to be understood within the framework of the recently introduced theory of landforms and plate tectonics. It discusses these in the light of the Qur'anic description on mountains. See for yourself how such explicit, precise, and comprehensive scientific statements provide an eloquent testimony to the belief that the Qur'an is the Word of the Creator. Includes many colored illustrations. Although it will be of value to anyone interested in the Qur'an, it is a must read for those studying earth science and geology.

The author explores various dimensions of Islam and studies some of the more hidden aspects of the encounter between Islam, Muslims and modern Western civilization. These encounters are viewed from the perspective of sacred history, viewing events as a continuum of Adamic story. Seen through this prism, the contemporary global conflicts gain a degree of depth that is often lacking in secular approaches. The prism through which contemporary events are seen is constructed by tapping into the primary sources of Islam - the Qur'an and Sunnah - as well as the early history of Muslims and the traditional Islamic view of the cosmos and the human condition. This book builds a compelling case for seeing the contemporary situation as a continuity of an old conflict between those who believe in the Creator and those who do not.

A first rate scholarly work dealing with the Islamic perspective on the environmental problem, and exposing the philosophical causes of the current environmental crisis in the Western sciences. Ibrahim Ozdemir is Professor of History of Philosophy at Ankara University. Published by Insan Publications.