Science

This full-color work beautifully illustrates Allah's choices of color in filling this world with majesty, diversity, and perfect fit. Numerous photos from nature (above land and under sea) complement this title. The colors, patterns, spots, and even lines on the creatures in nature have a meaning. Colors, sometimes used as a mean of communication, sometimes as warning for predators, have a vital importance for living beings. This is so much so that the lightness or darkness of that creature's shade of color, and even the direction of its lines have been specially determined. A watchful eye will immediately see that not only living beings but also everything else in nature is just the way it...

Caesarean Moon Births. Calculation, Moon Sighting, and the Prophetic Way Prior to the advent of electricity, every night held the possibility of a celestial light show. People in even the most urban environments were exposed to the awe and majesty of the heavens, which clearly “proclaim the glory of God.” The contemplation of the celestial orbs and their movements provided early man with the most direct connection to his Lord. In the Qur’anic story of Abraham, it is his observance of heavenly phenomena that leads him to his certainty of God’s unity and transcendence. Since the time of the Seljuq Turks, the crescent moon has been a sign of Islam.

This is the answer to a letter from a Muslim biologist who enquired about the religious status of those who subscribe to Darwin's theory of evolution.

Remains unsurpassed as the authoritative statement on this subject. With his characteristic breadth of learning, clarity of exposition and insight, Seyyed Hossein Nasr presents here for the first time a full picture of Islamic science, not as a chapter in the history of Western science, but as an integral aspect of Islamic civilisation and the Islamic intellectual tradition. By means of an historical presentation, an analysis of its forms, including the use of passages from the writings of many Muslim scientists and philosophers, the author is able to convey not only a sense of the operative context of Islamic science but he also demonstrates its inter-relatedness with the sapiential wisdom...

The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (Hardback) or centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely able to tell the time of day. Augustine had decreed that belief, not reason, should be the guiding light of Christian thinking and partially as a result Europeans lived in a world of nominal literacy and subsistence farming, where blind faith, superstition and sorcery took the place of medicine, and the church harnessed nascent aggression among the kingdoms to its own ends in the pursuit of astonishingly violent and cruel holy wars - the Crusades. Arab culture, however, was thriving, and had...