The history and philosophy of Islamic science

The history and philosophy of Islamic science

Bakar, Osman

Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society, 1999.

United Kingdom: Cambridge

266 p.

English

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Preface -- Pt. 1. The epistemological foundation of Islamic science -- Ch. 1. Religious consciousness and the scientific spirit in Islamic tradition -- Ch. 2. The question of methodology in Islamic science -- Ch. 3. The place of doubt in Islamic epistemology: al-Ghazzali's philosophical experience -- Pt. 2. Man, nature, and god in Islamic science -- Ch. 4. The unity of science and spiritual knowledge: the Islamic experience -- Ch. 5. The atomistic conception of nature in Ash'arite theology -- Ch. 6. An introduction to the philosophy of Islamic medicine -- Pt. 3. Islamic science and the west -- Ch. 7. The influence of Islamic science on medieval Christian conceptions of nature -- Ch. 8. 'Umar Khayyam's criticism of Euclid's theory of parallels -- Pt. 4. Islam and modern science -- Ch. 9. Islam and bioethics -- Ch. 10. Muslim intellectual responses to modern science -- Ch. 11. Islam, science and technology: past glory, present predicaments, and the shaping of the future -- Appendix. Designing a sound syllabus for courses on philosophy of applied and engineering sciences in a 21st century Islamic university -- Index

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