This is a partial translation of the celebrated Andalusian Qur'an commentator Abu 'Abd Allah al-Qurtubi's (d. 671/1273) manual on simple living entitled "The subduing of greed through abstinence and contentment and the repelling of the humiliation of beggary...]]>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/George+Saliba%3a+Islamic+Science+and+the+Making+of+the+European...-a0201086404George Saliba: Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, HC, 315 pp, ISBN: 978-0-262-19557-7

When, where, and how did the Islamic scientific tradition begin? When, where and how did it reach its zenith? What did it accomplish? And when did its decline begin? These are the basic questions that have puzzled historians of science for over a...]]>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Darwin's+shadow%3a+context+and+reception+in+the+Muslim+world.-a0201086403
Introduction

Muslim responses to Darwinian and neo-Darwinian ideas fall in a broad acceptance-rejection continuum, with all possible shades in between--from unconditional acceptance to various versions of theistic evolution, and from . vociferous rejection to a view that sees it as a liberating scientific fact. (1) These positions are generally intimately connected to the...]]>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/This+earth+a+masjid%3f-a0201086402The Prophet [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] recounts five things uniquely granted him in a fairly well-known tradition found in many collections of Hadith and transmitted variously by Jabir bin 'Abdullah [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] and Hudhayfa [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]. The second of these is that the earth was made for him a masjid and a means of purification ("made for us a...]]>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Causality+in+Islamic+philosophy%3a+the+arguments+of+Ibn+Sina.-a0201086401
Few ideas in the history of philosophy in Islam have been so much debated, attacked, and defended as has the thesis that a necessary connection exists between cause and effect, that cause and effect are so inextricably linked that the existence of one necessitates and implies that of the other, and that if the cause has occurred, the effect cannot fail to occur. For instance, it is...]]>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Elsaid+M.+Badawi+and+Muhammad+Abdel+Haleem%3a+Arabic-English+Dictionary...-a0201086400Elsaid M. Badawi and Muhammad Abdel Haleem:

Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage

Leiden: Brill, 2008, HC, 1070 pp, ISBN: 978 90 04 14948 9

This eighty-fifth volume in Brill's Handbook of Oriental Studies Series attempts to fulfill the long-standing need for an Arabic-English dictionary of Qur'anic usage. Adding an important resource for the study of the Qur'an, the...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Is+Islamic+science+possible%3f-a0191907688Enough has been said by the proponents of Islamic science and by those for whom even the term "Islamic science" is an oxymoron. In fact, too much has been said by both sides and the discourse has often spilled over to unrelated territories. Certain proponents of Islamic science find numerous recent scientific theories and even technological inventions in the Noble Qur'an; some of their...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Salim+T.+S.+Al-Hassani+(Chief+Editor)%2c+Elizabeth+Woodcock+and+Rabah...-a0191907687Salim T. S. Al-Hassani (Chief Editor), Elizabeth Woodcock and Rabah Saoud (Co-editors): 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World

Manchester, UK: Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation, 2006, 376 pp. HC, ISBN 978-0-9552426-1-8

Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 2006

vii+338pp, HC, ISBN 978-0-86078-996-3

Ten articles collected in this book under three headings are, like many other volumes in Ashgate's Variorum Collected Studies Series, a collection of earlier papers published in professional journals. The result of many years of labor, Studies in...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Darwin's+shadow%3a+context+and+reception+in+the+western+world.-a0191907685Introduction

On the afternoon of July 1, 1858, Charles Lyell (1797-1875) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), two friends of a forty-nine-old man who had lost faith in the Bible, (1) presented two papers at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London. (2) Both papers related to "the Laws which affect the Production of Varieties, Races, and Species" (3) and contained "the results of the...]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Some+upstream+research+programs+for+Muslim+mathematicians%3a...-a0191907684This article is inspired to a large extent by my reading and understanding of the works of Roshdi Rashed (1) and Imre Lakatos. (2) In my opinion their works, among those of others, (3) are very important for creative (4) Muslim mathematicians who want to reflect deeply on the meaning, scope, and goals of mathematics as well as on the nature of the truth and certainty (5) sought by...]]>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Cosmos+as+the+created+book+and+its+implications+for+the...-a0182036015
Based on the conception of the Cosmos as a grand, created Book consisting of Divine Signs, a conception made possible by the linguistic-conceptual system of the Islamized Arabic, this article deliberates on the orientation of science in Islam by elaborating on two theoretical implications of such a conception: one being the avoidance of secularization as a philosophical program, the...]]>