Tawhid and science: Islamic perspectives on religion and science

Tawhid and science: Islamic perspectives on religion and science

Bakar, Osman

Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia: Arah Publications, 2008.

Malaysia: Selangor Darul Ehsan

316 p.

English

20080000

Foreword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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5.1; 1.2

Islamic ethics--[pri];science--[pri];technology--[pri];theology--[pri]

Arab world;bioethics;engineering;fiqh;historical aspects;Islamic medicine;knowledge;methods;Muslim world;nature;philosophy;religion;researchers;sharia;Western world

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Foreword -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- Pt. One. 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. Two. 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. Three. 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 -- Part Four. Islam and modern science -- Ch. 9. Islam and bioethics -- Ch. 10. Muslim intellectual responses to modern science and technology -- Ch. 11. Islam, science and technology: past glory, present predicaments and the shaping of the future -- Ch. 12. Applied and engineering sciences in the perspectives of Tawhid and Shari‘ah -- Appendices: book reviews -- Bibliography -- Index

BP190.5 .S3 O86 2008

2nd edition

Refs., p. 285-301

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