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Title page
Copyright page
Islam and Science: Past, Present, and Future Debates
Contents
Foreword
1 Science, Religion/Islam, and How They Relate
Religion and Islam
Science
Relations between Religion/Islam and Science
2 Islam and Science: The Debates So Far
Brief Historical Review: When Did the Debates Start?
Modern Science and Its Impact
A Map of the Schools of Thought in Islam and Science
Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Muhammad Abduh
Al-Faruqi and the “Islamization of Knowledge”
Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Scientia Sacra
Naquib Al-Attas
Sardar and the Ijmalis: Islamic (Ethical) Science
Abdus Salam, Islam, and “Universal Science”
Iʿjaz ʿilmi: Maurice Bucaille, Keith Moore, and Zaghloul El-Naggar
Pervez Hoodbhoy and “Secular Science”
The “New Generation”
Taner Edis: “Anti-Harmony”
3 A Field(s)/Topical Map of the Debates
Theological Issues
Naturalism
Divine Action
Miracles
Evolution
Jurisprudential and Ethical Issues
Surrogacy
Organ Donation
Euthanasia
Cloning
Concluding Remarks
4 The New and Future Islam and Science Debates
Fine-Tuning, the Multiverse, and Pre–Big Bang Cosmology
Consciousness
Free Will
Randomness
Transsexual Issues
Artificial Intelligence
Transhumanism
Conclusion
5 ’Islam and Science’ in Education and the Wider Culture
’Islam and Science’ in Education
’Islam and Science’ in the General Culture
’Islam and Science’ and Current Events (Coronavirus, Climate
Change, Etc.)
Concluding Remarks
6 General Conclusions: Lessons and Prospects
References
Acknowledgments
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