- Introduction
- Buddhism and Science
- Judaism and Science
- Christianity and Science
- Islam And Science
- Indigenous Lifeways and Knowing the World
- Religious Naturalism and Science
- Atheism and Science
- Fundamental Physics and Religion
- Molecular Biology and Religion
- Evolutionary Theory and Religious Belief
- Ecology and Religion
- Neurophenomenology and Contemplative Experience
- Psychology, The Human Sciences, And Religion
- Sociology and Religion
- Anthropology and Religion
- Contributions from the Social Sciences
- Contributions from the Philosophy of Science
- Contributions from Philosophical Theology and Metaphysics
- Contributions from Systematic Theology
- Contributions from Practical Theology and Ethics
- Contributions from Spirituality: Simplicity— Complexity— Simplicity
- Varieties of Naturalism
- Interpreting Science from the Standpoint of Whiteheadian Process Philosophy
- Anglo‐American Post‐modernity and the End of Theology— Science Dialogue?
- Trinitarian Faith Seeking Transformative Understanding
- Religious Experience, Cognitive Science, and the Future of Religion
- Toward A Comprehensive Integration Of Science and Religion: A Post‐metaphysical Approach
- Religion‐and‐Science
- Theologies of Divine Action
- Ground‐ of‐Being Theologies
- Problems in Panentheism
- Darwinism
- God and Evolution
- The Pre‐modern Sins of Intelligent Design
- Emergence and Complexity
- Emergence, Theology, and the Manifest Image
- The Hidden Battles over Emergence
- Feminist Perspectives in Medicine and Bioethics
- Science, Ethics, and the Human Spirit
- Environmental Ethics and Religion/Science
- Biotechnology and the Religion—Science Discussion
- Relations Between <i>Homo Sapiens</i> and Other Animals: Scientific and Religious Arguments
- Concluding Reflections: Dover Beach Revisited
Abstract and Keywords
The issue of Islam and modern science, along with its progeny, modern technology, continues today as one of the most crucial faced by the Islamic community. It has been, and continues to be, addressed by numerous scholars and thinkers, covering nearly the whole gamut of the spectrum of Islamic intellectual activity since the last century. This article analyses modern science and subjects it to an in-depth criticism from the Islamic point of view, drawing from the Islamic intellectual tradition. It holds that any science that could legitimately be called Islamic science, and not be disruptive of the whole Islamic order, must be one that remains aware of the ‘vertical cause’ of all things, along with the horizontal, a science that issues from and returns to the Real (al-Haqq), who is the cause of all things.
Keywords: Islamic science, al-Haqq, modern science, Islamic community, modern technology
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University.
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- Introduction
- Buddhism and Science
- Judaism and Science
- Christianity and Science
- Islam And Science
- Indigenous Lifeways and Knowing the World
- Religious Naturalism and Science
- Atheism and Science
- Fundamental Physics and Religion
- Molecular Biology and Religion
- Evolutionary Theory and Religious Belief
- Ecology and Religion
- Neurophenomenology and Contemplative Experience
- Psychology, The Human Sciences, And Religion
- Sociology and Religion
- Anthropology and Religion
- Contributions from the Social Sciences
- Contributions from the Philosophy of Science
- Contributions from Philosophical Theology and Metaphysics
- Contributions from Systematic Theology
- Contributions from Practical Theology and Ethics
- Contributions from Spirituality: Simplicity— Complexity— Simplicity
- Varieties of Naturalism
- Interpreting Science from the Standpoint of Whiteheadian Process Philosophy
- Anglo‐American Post‐modernity and the End of Theology— Science Dialogue?
- Trinitarian Faith Seeking Transformative Understanding
- Religious Experience, Cognitive Science, and the Future of Religion
- Toward A Comprehensive Integration Of Science and Religion: A Post‐metaphysical Approach
- Religion‐and‐Science
- Theologies of Divine Action
- Ground‐ of‐Being Theologies
- Problems in Panentheism
- Darwinism
- God and Evolution
- The Pre‐modern Sins of Intelligent Design
- Emergence and Complexity
- Emergence, Theology, and the Manifest Image
- The Hidden Battles over Emergence
- Feminist Perspectives in Medicine and Bioethics
- Science, Ethics, and the Human Spirit
- Environmental Ethics and Religion/Science
- Biotechnology and the Religion—Science Discussion
- Relations Between <i>Homo Sapiens</i> and Other Animals: Scientific and Religious Arguments
- Concluding Reflections: Dover Beach Revisited