The Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs honoured participants and instructors in the programmes and courses of the Da‘ ...

A direct English translation of the Arabic word 'ilm علم is "knowledge", but the Arabic appellation is pregnant with meanings that transcend what knowledge implied for the likes of Plato, Pythagoras, ...

Three cuttlefish and other marine and terrestrial animals. From an Arabic manuscript of Dioscurides' Book of Herbs. Credit: Leiden University Libraries. Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely ...

No one believes that science is always objective. But how much are the ideas, experiments, and even conclusions of science shaped by the surrounding culture? Social scientist Kalim Siddiqui, director ...

Columbia professor George Saliba discussed the role of pre-modern Islam in advancing the scientific knowledge of the ancient Greeks in a lecture to the Princeton Middle East Society on Sunday evening.

Muslim manuscript-based research is an intricate process that requires fluency in Arabic and Persian, the medium of writing for Muslim scientists.” Interpreting medieval astronomical manuscripts is ...

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...

ORSAY, France (Reuters) - With creationism now coming in Christian and Muslim versions, scientists, teachers and theologians in France are debating ways to counteract what they see as growing ...

The Islamic Center at UConn. Photo by ICUC/Facebook. The Graduate Muslim Student Association (GradMSA) and the Islamic Center of University of Connecticut (ICUC) would like to share an exciting and ...

New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance polymath, bears striking resemblance to the one designed by an Arab Muslim ...