Studies in the Islam and Science Nexus

Contents: Introduction; Part I Framing the Discourse: Three views of science in the Islamic world, Ibrahim Kalin; What was Islamic in Islamic scientific tradition, Roshdi Rashed; Islam and science: a false statement of the problem, Dimitri Gutas; The unthought of Islamic science (part I), S. Parvez Manzoor; Islam and sciences of nature: some fundamental questions, Mehdi Golshani; Reformulating a comprehensive relationship between religion and science: an Islamic perspective, Osman Bakar; Islam and science: beyond the troubled relationship, Ziauddin Sardar. Part II Exploring Connections: Islam and the philosophy of science, Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas; Unseen and visible, Hamid Parsania; The question of cosmogenesis - the cosmos as a subject of scientific study, Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Holistic approach to scientific traditions, Alparslan Açikgenç; Towards developing Islamic science: a review and appraisal, M. Saidul Islam; The significance of sufi-empirical principles in the natural theology and discourse on science in Islam, Azizan Baharuddin; The 'Tawhidi' precept in the sciences, Masudul Alam Choudhury; The cosmos as the created book and its implications for the orientation of science, Mohd Zaidi b. Ismail; Taskhir, fine-tuning, intelligent design and the scientific appreciation of nature, 'Adi Setia. Part III What Islamic Science is Not: Islam and the problem of modern science, Seyyed Hossein Nasr; Modern science and varieties of Muslim modernism, M. Maroof Shah; What Islamic science is not, Munawwar Ahmad Anees; A reply to 'what Islamic science is not', Jamal Mimouni; What Islamic science is not: a rejoinder, Munawwar Ahmad Anees. Part IV In Quest of a Revival: Islamic science as a scientific research program, conceptual and pragmatic issues, 'Adi Setia; Modes of operations in the quest of Islamic science, Shaharir Bin Mohammad Zain; Three meanings of Islamic science: toward operationalizing Islamization of science, 'Adi Setia. Part V Qur'an and Science Nexu