Islam and Science

This first Element in the series Islam and the Sciences is introductory and aims to give readers a general overview of the wide and rich scope of interactions of Islam with the sciences including past disputes current challenges and future outlooks. The Element introduces the main voices and schools of thought adopting a historical approach to show the evolution of the debates: Khan''s naturalism al-Jisr''s hermeneutics Abduh''s modernist Islam Nasr''s perennialist and sacred science al-Attas''s Islamic science Sardar and the Ijmalis'' ethical science al-Faruqi''s Islamization of knowledge/science Bucaille''s and El-Naggar''s ''miraculous scientific content in the Qur''an'' Abdus Salam''s universal science Hoodbhoy''s and Edis''s secularism and the harmonization of the ''new generation.'' The Element also maps out new and emerging topics that are beginning to reignite the debates before a concluding section examines how issues of Islam and Science are playing out in the media in public discourse and in education.