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The history and philosophy of Islamic science / Osman Bakar.

By: Osman BakarMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK : Islamic Texts Society, 1999. Description: x, 266 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 0946621837; 9780946621835Uniform titles: Tawhid and science Subject(s): Islam and science | Islam and philosophy | Islam -- History | Islam -- history | Science -- history | PhilosophyGenre/Form: HistoryLOC classification: BP190.5.S3 | O86 1999
Contents:
Religious consciousness and the scientific spirit in Islamic tradition -- The question of methodology in Islamic science -- The place of doubt in Islamic epistemology: al-Ghazzālī's philosophical experience -- The unity of science and spiritual knowledge: the Islamic experience -- The atomistic conception of nature in Ashʻarite theology -- An introduction to the philosophy of Islamic medicine -- The influence of Islamic science on medieval Christian conceptions of nature -- Umar Khayyam's criticism of Euclid's theory of parallels -- Islam and bioethics -- Muslim intellectual responses to modern science -- Islam, science and technology: past glory, present predicaments, and the shaping of the future -- Designing a sound syllabus for courses on philosophy of applied and engineering sciences in a 21st century Islamic university.
Review: "The Essays Presented in The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science discuss the principles behind the different sciences cultivated in the Islamic world from the third century of the Islamic era onwards and the place of science in relation to the other branches of Islamic learning. In defining what Islamic science means, Professor Osman Bakar shows how these sciences are organically related to the fundamental teachings of Islam. The great attraction of The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science is its interdisciplinary character. The book is of value to all those concerned with the problem of knowledge in all its dimensions."--Jacket.
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"First published 1991 as Tawhid and science by Secretariat for Islamic Philosophy and Science & Nurin Enterprise, Malaysa"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religious consciousness and the scientific spirit in Islamic tradition -- The question of methodology in Islamic science -- The place of doubt in Islamic epistemology: al-Ghazzālī's philosophical experience -- The unity of science and spiritual knowledge: the Islamic experience -- The atomistic conception of nature in Ashʻarite theology -- An introduction to the philosophy of Islamic medicine -- The influence of Islamic science on medieval Christian conceptions of nature -- Umar Khayyam's criticism of Euclid's theory of parallels -- Islam and bioethics -- Muslim intellectual responses to modern science -- Islam, science and technology: past glory, present predicaments, and the shaping of the future -- Designing a sound syllabus for courses on philosophy of applied and engineering sciences in a 21st century Islamic university.

"The Essays Presented in The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science discuss the principles behind the different sciences cultivated in the Islamic world from the third century of the Islamic era onwards and the place of science in relation to the other branches of Islamic learning. In defining what Islamic science means, Professor Osman Bakar shows how these sciences are organically related to the fundamental teachings of Islam. The great attraction of The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science is its interdisciplinary character. The book is of value to all those concerned with the problem of knowledge in all its dimensions."--Jacket.