So for those of you who haven’t heard of him, I stumbled across the website of Harun Yahya, a prominent Turkish author who has attracted the attention of Muslim intellectuals. His real name is actually Adnan Oktar (if anyone plans to look him up a bit) and he is an advocate for Islamic creationism – […]

I just randomly found this GREAT video which concludes that ‘the dark ages’ should be named and spread as  the “golden ages.” The short movie talks about a group of students who are on a school fieldtrip to some museum. The teacher assigns groups of students a part of history to research the  impact of […]

Hello classmates, First of all I am going to define art. According to www.dictionary.com, art is defined as “the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.” Nowadays, its very hard for anyone to imagine his or her life without art. Well in […]

Hi all, Okay! I think some of you would disagree already by reading the title. Although this might be the case, I definitely enjoyed it. It seems to me that the only reason  we went there was to see Ibn Sina’s name mentioned only once and in-between the lines. De Vinci’s work is great, but […]

Hello class, Couple of weeks ago, Dr. Sajoo came and shared with us interesting thoughts about ethics and Islamic ethics. Ironically, I think  the most important lesson I learned this day was the importance of arriving to class on time. I loved his ability to come up with examples on the spot that fit exactly […]

I found this video called “Islamic Countries Contributions to Humanity” and what really pulled me in (other than the name obviously) is that it’s made for PBS and that’s the same channel that has Arthur and a bunch of other awesome kids shows 😀 Anyways, on to the actual video. I really liked how the […]

This is an article I came across whilst researching for my project on Islamic contributions to optics. I personally find it an extraordinarily well written article that manages to really sum up the objectives of this course. The author, Ibrahim B. Syed, manages to cover nine different areas in which Islamic medicine was, as he […]

So I said I would try to post the article that I had in my presentation because I found it interesting and somewhat relevant to our class. Taken from my human geography class it focuses more on the social and economic aspect of the world; Although this article does not concentrate on Science and Islam, […]

So I was watching an interview about a Muslim scholar and I remembered the other day talking about well known Arabic scholars with some friends. I know that our class focuses on the science aspect of the Islamic Civilisation, but I think it is also very important to note and remember the importance of the […]

Ok I promise you this is the last one. I think it is important for us to keep one of our blog posts dedicated to explain how this class has increased our awareness about the subject. For me, I think that I started with 25% of the knowledge I have now. This knowledge was not […]