Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religious consciousness and the scientific spirit in Islamic tradition -- The question of methodology in Islamic science -- The place of doubt in Islamic epistemology: al-Ghazzālī's philosophical experience -- The unity of science and spiritual knowledge: the Islamic experience -- The atomistic conception of nature in Ashʻarite theology -- An introduction to the philosophy of Islamic medicine -- The influence of Islamic science on medieval Christian conceptions of nature -- Umar Khayyam's criticism of Euclid's theory of parallels -- Islam and bioethics -- Muslim intellectual responses to modern science -- Islam, science and technology: past glory, present predicaments, and the shaping of the future -- Designing a sound syllabus for courses on philosophy of applied and engineering sciences in a 21st century Islamic university.