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The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science

Osman Bakar(Auth.)
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The essays presented in The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science discuss 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 other branches of Islamic learning.

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The essays presented inThe History and Philosophy of Islamic Science discuss 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 other branches of Islamic learning. In defining what Islamic science means, Professor Osman Bakar shows how these sciences are organically related to the fundamental teachings of Islam. Covering all the natural and mathematical sciences,The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science illustrates what Islamic science shares with modern science. Professor Osman Bakar also highlights where the Islamic approach to science differs from the secular, modern approach.

‘[Osman Bakar’s book] marks a most valuable contribution both to the effort of revealing the Islamic intellectual and spiritual approach to science, and to the concomitant endeavour to highlight the deeper causes of the contemporary crisis in western science and technology...it opens up, with clarity and simplicity, the philosophy of Islamic science.’Islamic Quarterly

Table of Contents

Part One:The Epistemological Foundation of Islamic Science

Religious Consciousness and the Scientific Spirit in Islamic Tradition

The Question of Methodology in Islamic Science

The Place of Doubt in Islamic Epistemology: al-Ghazzali’s Philosophical Experience

Part Two: Man, Nature, and God in Islamic Science

The Unity of Science and Spiritual Knowledge: The Islamic Experience

The Atomistic Conception of Nature in Ash’arite Theology

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Islamic Medicine

Part Three: Islamic Science and the West

The Influence of Islamic Science on Medieval Christian Conceptions of Nature

Umar Khayyam’s Criticism of Euclid’s Theory of Parallels

Part Four: Islam and Modern Science

Islam and Bioethics

Muslim Intellectual Responses to Modern Science

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
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About the author

Osman Bakar: Dr. Osman Bakar hafidhahullah is a Malaysian scholar, teacher, and author whose work is known across the Islamic world and among Western scholars of Islam. Born in Temerloh in the state of Pahang, Malaysia, he completed his undergraduate degree with honors and an M.Sc. in Mathematics specializing in Algebra at London University. In 1981 he entered Temple University, where he completed an M.A. in Comparative Religion and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science and Islamic Philosophy. He served as Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice President of Academics at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, where he was also the first holder of the Chair of the Philosophy of Science, a position he occupied until 2001. He is one of the founding members of the Islamic Academy of Science of Malaysia and has served as its President. His research interests include Southeast Asian Islam (particularly Malaysian and Indonesian Islam), contemporary Islamic thought, and the relationship between religion and science in both classical and contemporary Islamic contexts. His major works include The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science and Classification of Knowledge in Islam.

Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN 9780946621835
Publisher Islamic Texts Society
Author Osman Bakar
Pages 278
Year Published 1999
Size W-5.5 in | H-8.5 in | D-0.6 in
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