BBC Four's 3-part series 'Islam & Science' starts tonight, and presenter, physicist Jim Al-Khalili, begins by discussing 'the language of science'. In an article today, he also discusses the work of ...

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, ...

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 ...

The McMullen Museum of Art has unveiled an extraordinary exhibition—Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World—which bridges centuries of Islamic intellectual achievement ...

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...

More Islamic-school students in years 11 to 12 are enrolled in science and maths than other students in Australia. In our study of Islamic-school students’ career aspirations, about 28% of our sample ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

Islam turned away from the natural philosophers for a valid religious reason. The triumphant Ashari school believed that the ...