Dieser Autor erforscht die faszinierende Schnittmenge von Wissenschaft, Bildung, der arabischen Welt und dem Islam. Als anerkannter Astrophysiker und Universitätsprofessor bringt er eine einzigartige Perspektive in seine Schriften ein. Seine Erkenntnisse, die in führenden Publikationen und internationalen Medien vorgestellt werden, bieten tiefe Reflexionen über komplexe Themen. Seine umfassende Erfahrung und seine globale Anerkennung machen ihn zu einem führenden Gelehrten in Diskussionen über Islam und Wissenschaft.
This first Element in the series Islam and the Sciences is introductory and aims to give readers a general overview of the wide and rich scope of interactions of Islam with the sciences, including past disputes, current challenges, and future outlooks.
This book is the first of its kind. It is accessible and easy to read; it is as if you are having a conversation with the author. The book addresses challenges we face today in schools and everyday life. It is comprehensive without being too detailed. It gives a road map, a guide for how to handle controversial issues in science and Islam.
In secular Europe the veracity of modern science is almost always taken for granted. This book states that evolutionary theory does not contradict core Muslim beliefs, but that many scholars, from Islam's golden age to the present, adopted a worldview that accepted evolution as a given.