Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History

Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History

Author: Ahmad Dallal

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-05-18

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0300159145

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"In this wide-ranging and masterly work, Ahmad Dallal examines the significance of scientific knowledge and situates the culture of science in relation to other cultural forces in Muslim societies. He traces the ways the realms of scientific knowledge and religious authority were delineated historically. For example, the emergence of new mathematical methods revealed that many mosques built in the early period of Islamic expansion were misaligned relative to the Ka'ba in Mecca; this misalignment was critical because Muslims must face Mecca during their five daily prayers. The realization of a discrepancy between tradition and science often led to demolition and rebuilding and, most important, to questioning whether scientific knowledge should take precedence over religious authority in a matter where their realms clearly overlapped"--Page 2 of cover.


The Challenge of Political Islam

The Challenge of Political Islam

Author: Rachel Scott

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2010-04-23

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0804769052

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Based on Islamist writings, political tracts, and interviews with Islamists, this book examines Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt from the perspective of Islamic conceptions of citizenship, and provides non-Muslim responses to those views.


Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance

Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance

Author: George Saliba

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2011-01-21

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0262516152

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance. The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Naidm that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in the later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance. Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamic science, then discusses their shortcomings and proposes an alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a template for tracing the progress of science in Islamic civilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality of Islamic scientific thought. He details the innovations (including new mathematical tools) made by the Islamic astronomers from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and offers evidence that Copernicus could have known of and drawn on their work. Rather than viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science from the often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion, Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself and the complex social, economic, and intellectual conditions that made it possible.


The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization

The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization

Author: Richard W. Bulliet

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2006-03-22

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0231127979

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The 'clash of civilisations' so often talked about in connection with relations between the West and Arab nations is, argues Richard Bulliet, no more than dangerous sophistry based on misconceptions in American government. He sets out the common ground between Islam and Christianity.


Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History

Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History

Author: Tayeb El-Hibri

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 0231150822

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Tayeb El-Hibri draws on medieval Islamic chronicles to remap the origins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy, offering an insightful critique of both early and contemporary Islam and the concerns of legitimacy shadowing various rulers. He also highlights the Islamic reinterpretation of biblical traditions.


Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment

Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment

Author: Ahmet T. Kuru

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1108419097

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.


History of Islamic Law

History of Islamic Law

Author: Noel Coulson

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-03-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0748696490

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The classic introduction to Islamic law, tracing its development from its origins,through the medieval period, to its place in modern Islam.


Islam

Islam

Author: Doreen Peters

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781634856508

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book reviews global issues, challenges and perspectives of the 21st century. Chapter One focuses on recent history and contemporary political issues to explain the ongoing conflicts in Iraq. Chapter Two aims to find out the answers on how Islamic economics system will shape the future global economy. Chapter Three discusses Islam and essentialism. Chapter Four focuses on challenges and perspectives of teaching Muslim religious education in the 21st century. Chapter Five explores how Muslims have themselves become a burden to the religion of Islam in the 21st century as a result of their intransigent on issues and the belief that the only way to be a Muslim is to live in the 7th century of the earlier period of Islam.


Misquoting Muhammad

Misquoting Muhammad

Author: Jonathan A.C. Brown

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-08-07

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1780744218

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS ON RELIGION 2014 PICK Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Prophet Muhammad. Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad, underage marriage and the threat of amputation or stoning under Shariah law. Sometimes rumor, sometimes based on fact and often misunderstood, the tenets of Islamic law and dogma were not set in the religion’s founding moments. They were developed, like in other world religions, over centuries by the clerical class of Muslim scholars. Misquoting Muhammad takes the reader back in time through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such controversies developed, offering an inside view into how key and controversial aspects of Islam took shape. From the protests of the Arab Spring to Istanbul at the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and from the ochre red walls of Delhi’s great mosques to the trade routes of the Indian Ocean world, Misquoting Muhammad lays out how Muslim intellectuals have sought to balance reason and revelation, weigh science and religion, and negotiate the eternal truths of scripture amid shifting values.


The Lighthouse and the Observatory

The Lighthouse and the Observatory

Author: Daniel A. Stolz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1107196337

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.