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Are Muslim beliefs compatible with critical inquiry?
Islam vs. Science
Are Muslim beliefs compatible with critical inquiry?
A new study is sparking debate
By Jay Tolson
Posted 9/2/07
Almost every standard world history textbook celebrates Islam's golden age of science. Between the ninth and 13th centuries, Muslim scholars not only translated the great works of Greek medicine, mathematics, and science but also pushed the frontiers of discovery in all of those areas. They improved and named algebra, refined techniques of surgery, advanced the study of optics, and charted the heavens. Then, toward the end of the 13th century, something mysterious happened: The scientific spirit seemed to die almost completely.
Is the Muslim Faith Compatible With Critical Inquiry? - US News and World Report
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Re: Are Muslim beliefs compatible with critical inquiry?
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Islam vs. Science
Are Muslim beliefs compatible with critical inquiry?
A new study is sparking debate
By Jay Tolson
Posted 9/2/07
Almost every standard world history textbook celebrates Islam's golden age of science. Between the ninth and 13th centuries, Muslim scholars not only translated the great works of Greek medicine, mathematics, and science but also pushed the frontiers of discovery in all of those areas. They improved and named algebra, refined techniques of surgery, advanced the study of optics, and charted the heavens. Then, toward the end of the 13th century, something mysterious happened: The scientific spirit seemed to die almost completely.
Is the Muslim Faith Compatible With Critical Inquiry? - US News and World Report |
The Ottomans lack of the use of the printing press is some of the cause. And there is another thread in hear somewhere where one poster blames science and learning as the cause for all the worlds troubles. |
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Then, toward the end of the 13th century, something mysterious happened: The scientific spirit seemed to die almost completely.
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The Mongol invasions. Not really that mysterious. |
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Re: Are Muslim beliefs compatible with critical inquiry?
yes they are
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The Mongol invasions. Not really that mysterious.
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Ditto.
Burning of the great Baghdad libraries in central islamica and the beginning of the Inquisitions didn't help.
But hey, resilience is our middle name, we've bounced back plenty of times Jammy, so I wouldn't worry. Some shyoukh have said that Islam / Muslim's golden age hasn't even come yet.
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Re: Are Muslim beliefs compatible with critical inquiry?
The only problem is that alot of people fixate on the past instead of the future, but thats not something intrinsic to beliefs, its just a reaction that happens when great civilizations lose stature.
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Re: Are Muslim beliefs compatible with critical inquiry?
Interesting article. The explanation given by the Iranian philosopher, Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasr made a lot of sense.
The fact that Quaid-i-Azam University has three mosques on campus but not one single bookstore speaks volumes.
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Re: Are Muslim beliefs compatible with critical inquiry?
In my experience, "fundamentalist" or conservative Muslims are more appreciative of Science and Scientific methods than their Christian counterparts.
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Interesting article. The explanation given by the Iranian philosopher, Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasr made a lot of sense.
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Interesting article. The explanation given by the Iranian philosopher, Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasr made a lot of sense.
The fact that Quaid-i-Azam University has three mosques on campus but not one single bookstore speaks volumes.
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And it couldn't possibly have anything to do with the prices of books in that part of the world relative to peoples incomes? 
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And it couldn't possibly have anything to do with the prices of books in that part of the world relative to peoples incomes? |
Are you kidding?..  almost all of my books at uni, I had to get my folks to send them to me from Pakistan cuz I couldn't afford to buy them from the Uni bookshop.
Your not aware of the concept of pirated books are you?  How do you think the Harry Potter books are so popular in Pakistan. The kids didn't buy them at their original prices did they?
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....sometimes the posts on here make me think so.
But anyway,
YEH! This dude from Iraq basically invented science (as we know it today). Al Hisham... I think - I'm gonna dig it up. He was the first we know of to order the scientific method.
So in other words, he was the man.
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