TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bakar,Osman
TI  - The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science
SN  - 0946621837
U1  - 297.267 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Cambridge, UK
PB  - Islamic Texts Society
KW  - Islam and science
KW  - Islam
KW  - History
KW  - Islam and philosophy
N1  - 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
ER  -