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Islam and Science Articles: Contrast between Islamic and Western Science Science conflicting with Religion? Not for Muslims!
Islamic Banking and Finance by Shakeel Ahmad Islamic Financial System is attracting more and more attention, now, because this financial segment is growing very fast, today. The high rate of innovation in recent years and entry into terrains previously thought as impossible to penetrate, possibly due to perceived limitations from the edicts of Sharia, are providing the impetus for this growth. The long-term success of this system depends on the potential of this system to evolve into a holistic system, capable of serving all the perceivable needs of people and nations. Successful transformation of conventional banks into Islamic ones (e.g., National Bank of Sharjah) and switching of countries’ from conventional or mixed financial system into Islamic financial systems (e.g., Pakistan, Iran and Sudan) have created ripples so much so that there is currently a rush for conventional banks to open their own Islamic windows (e.g., HSBC, standard Chartered Bank, Mashreq Bank, Grindlays, Citibank, etc.). ---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x--- A Review of Muslim Contribution to Chemistry Before addressing
the subject of Muslim chemistry, however, one crucial matter needs to be
raised. It concerns the use of the word Alchemy instead of chemistry. Turkish Contributions to Philosophical Culture The Muslim contributions to different branches of philosophical knowledge formed a turning point in the history of ideas. Islamic philosophy really started with Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (d. circa. 873 CE). Al Kindi represents the first important attempt to harmonise philosophy with religion. The machines of Al-Jazari and Taqi Al-Din This article is based on a paper presented by the Professor Salim Al Hassani at the 22nd Annual Conference on the History of Arabic Sciences, Aleppo, and 23-25 October 2001. It summarises the results of three recent investigations on the Machines of Al-Jazari and Taqi Al-Din sponsored by the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilization (FSTC) and carried out at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) as Final Year student projects for the award of B.Eng Hons. Degree in mechanical Engineering.
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