Can Islam and science reconcile?, asks Fatima Agha Al-Hayani, a lecturer and expert on Islamic jurisprudence based in Toledo, Ohio. They were reconciled during Islam’s first 600 years, she reports.

There have been several books published recently touting the historical contributions of Islamic scholars to the early history of science (in the Middle Ages), but fewer assessing the relationship ...

Sunday was the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. As Earth's axis tilted, the sun reached its highest position in the sky, bathing the upper latitudes in enduring light. Residents of ...

Additional plates or discs which Arab scientists invented. They were used as supplementary tools to be inserted into astronomical instruments like the astrolabe to supplement its functions. There is ...

When it comes to celebrating scientific anniversaries, there aren’t many opportunities to look back a whole millennium. Western Europe in the 11th century was about as scientifically astute as an anti ...

THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims have produced only two Nobel ...

There are more than a billion Muslims in the world today – over a fifth of the world’s total population – spread over many more than the 57 member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ...

Nobel physics laureate Steven Weinberg sparked an outcry in the letters pages of the U.K.'s Times Literary Supplement last month by claiming in a book review that there were no scientific advances ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In an article today, he also discusses the work of who he considers the 'first true scientist', al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham: without doubt, another great physicist, who is worthy of ranking up alongside ...

From the 9th through the 14th centuries, Islamic societies experienced “an intellectually productive and brilliant phase” that nurtured great scientists, writes Pervez Hoodbhoy, a professor of nuclear ...

Ehsan Masood’s opening question, “Does Islam’s vibrant scientific past hold the key to its intellectual future?” misses the entire point (1 April, p 53). The attempt to equate a period of scientific ...