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- Title: Muslims and the Brave New World of Modern Science (Shadhrah 14)
- Author : Islam & Science
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 171 KB
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For many Muslims, modern science poses enormous challenges: hey feel intimidated by the magisterial power granted it in the contemporary world; their self-consciousness about inadequate Muslim contributions to modern science makes them uneasy to such an extent that they feel a psychological need to fall back on vague notions of a glorious past when the most robust enterprise of science in the world was theirs; and they attempt to remedy their situation by numerous non-scientific means, including the now widespread attempts to prove that various scientific theories and facts recently discovered by modern science are already present in the Qur'an. Millions of Muslims are enthralled by speakers, websites, television anchors, and popular orators who can in some way demonstrate that modern science validates Divine authorship of the Qur'an. Albeit for the most part unacknowledged, the psychological need to see the proof of modern science corroborating their faith is rooted in the tacit recognition of the authoritative role of modern science-even while most of these Muslims would claim that such scientific validation is sought for its use in calling others to Islam and proving to non-Muslims that the Qur'an is indeed a Divine Book. The enormous popularity of these attempts at appeasement notwithstanding, a science deficit continues to remain the burden of the Umma, the community of believers whose distinct civilization is rightfully credited by unbiased historians of science to have once been the harbinger of a scientific tradition that existed across the largest geographical area and for longer than any other scientific tradition. Yet, all those achievements now appear only in history books, always as a passing reference in the progress narrative of scientific rationality and technique, and always in the past tense; the present and, by extension, the future belong to a uniquely Western scientific tradition that has a claim to universality--a claim that attempts to foreclose even the possibility of the emergence of alternate scientific traditions which could reconstruct the entire structure of science through a radical modification based on a different spiritual, philosophical, and intellectual understanding of the natural world, and which could thereby give birth to a new framework redefining the purpose, methods, and applications of science.
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