Hey, This is an article I found from a couple years ago in the Vancouver Sun by Peter Mcknight, entitled “Coupling of Science and Religion.” Link:http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=920b6a41-2536-4cab-a98f-df24da4c8789 I thought it was very well written and gave a good overview of historical relations between science and religion. It has obvious relevance to our class since he talks […]
This is our presentation schedule as of now, however dates may change and a couple students still need to be slotted in. The guidelines are in the syllabus and the rubric is on a separate page. Topics: Week 5: Thursday, February 4 The translation movement (Hilary) Engineering (Raheem) Week 6 Mathematics (Celeste) Pharmacology (Reem) Week […]
This post is by Dalia(originally made as a comment): Yesterday (Friday January 22nd) I attended a lecture put on by the MSA where Dr. Jamal Badawi spoke. Dr. Jamal Badawi is an Egyptian born Muslim Canadian professor who now teaches at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia. He is also a well known author of […]
Hi all, I read this article for my RELG340 class (Heritage of Islam) and thought it had an interesting, if not controversial perspective on the reason for the “decline” of the Islamic Sciences. It was written by Fazlur Rahman, from his Islam 2nd ed. book in “Chapter 11: Education”. I attached the PDF file here […]
Hi again, So just one more thing that I thought was interesting: there’s a reading list on Saudi Aramco World’s website and they recommend this book: 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World. Al-Hassani, Salim T. S.. 2006, Mega Basim, 978-0-9552426-1-8 (2nd ed.), $59.50/£29.50 hbIn 1993, Donald Cardwell, an eminent historian of science at Manchester University, […]
Hi again everyone, So this post is kind of unrelated to our class, but just wanted to tell you all about this magazine I subscribe to called ‘Saudi Aramco World’. It’s basically a general interest magazine discussing research in various fields except it focuses on Islamic and Middle Eastern topics. Besides the article about Dr. […]
Hey everyone, Found this interesting article on modern scientific work: Dr. Ahmed Zewail was the first scientist to record molecular chemical reactions, thus establishing the field of femtochemistry and in 1999 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Femtochemistry is the study of microscopic chemical reactions taking place under an extremely short period of time […]
This is the website and blog for the Student Directed Seminar “Science and Civilization in Islam.” This page will serve as a gateway to the course syllabus, readings, assignment descriptions and deadlines and the class writing and video blog. All students will need to create an account with UBC blogs in order to contribute to […]