So I’m gonna try and keep this up, I think theres alot more we all would like to say. I attended a presentation a couple days ago entitled “plurality in North American Islamic Architecture” by Dr.Omar Khalidi, a professor at MIT. The talk was awesome and there are some interesting aspects I found with presentation. […]
http://www.youngartists.com/islamic.htm I found that website about different architecture and structures that they considered art. I found it really cool how they showed all the different types of materials that they used such as: carpet, metal, silk, ceramics, etc. And how they used Architecture for showing the different cultures as well as what they used art […]
Hey guys, I already did my 5 posts but I just found this cool “series” uploaded on YouTube and I think it will help us with our final posters. Basically someone went to an exhibition called “Sultans of Science” in the Ontario Space Center and filmed all the posters/displays (and original manuscripts!) covering Muslim scientists/Islamic […]
I found this video documentary that was done by BBC called “Islam and Science 3: the power of doubt” I wish I had found these videos earlier, there’s 6 parts to that one which talks about astronomy. The speaker in the documentary is named Jamal Khalili and he’s a professor of physics, he was born […]
The more we discuss the contributions of scientists under the domain of the Islamic Civilization, the more we talk about the decline, and the more we talk about the history of it all, the more I am convinced that the most important thing excluding capacity/potentiality (for something to occur) is money. Sometimes, even money can […]
I was reading Aalia’s blog titled “A dinnertime conversation” and that got me to think. I think we, not simply as Muslims but also as individuals who seek truth, are responsible to inform as many people as possible. One main reason I really enjoyed this course was how the book in those early few chapters, […]
Previous post titled “Philosophy-Part I” was my attempt to think about philosophy in the Golden Age. In this post, I’d like to think about philosophy after the “Decline”. When you look at the contemporary Middle Eastern society, is it just me or do you also get the feeling that it discourages people from being creative, […]
So, I was talking to a classmate today about philosophy, and naturally, I was inspired to write a blog about it! Please, bear with me… As we should know from our readings, philosophy during the Islamic Golden Age was divided into two different schools of thought. One of them (whose name I can’t recall) could […]
My philosophy is that in the real, non-ideal, life that we live, nothing is absolute. Consequently, there are usually a multitude of reasons for any given event, regardless of the apparent significance of the event. So it should come as no surprise that I do not accept the explanation of “It was the West’s fault” […]
I’ve always found word etymologies really interesting, and I’ve often noticed a similarity between some words in English and Arabic but I always thought that the words were adopted by the Arabs from English colonization and the like. Little did I know that far before colonization took place, many Arabic words had been introduced to […]