Last week's attacks in New York and Washington were an offence against fundamental values that merits a well-targeted response, helped by science. But enhanced contacts with Islamic colleagues should ...

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.

On a hill to the west of the city of Maragha in northern Iran lie the remains of an observatory. Built for astronomer Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in the 13th century, this observatory was home to a variety ...

New investment and links with the West will help to rebuild science in Muslim nations Most physicists, particularly those in western nations, probably do not give religion a great deal of thought. A ...

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 ...

For science to realize its potential in the Muslim world, attitudes need to change at a societal level, not just an individual one, says Dyna Rochmyaningsih. You have ...

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, ...

The holy month of Ramadan is being observed by our Muslim brothers and sisters all over the world. Muslims believe that ...