IN THE SHADOWS OF MEDICINE AND MODERNITY: MEDICAL INTEGRATION AND SECULAR…
Building upon the World Health Organization’s recent publication WHO Strategy for Traditional Medicine (WHO 2002), this paper…
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Traditional Arabic and Islamic Medicine, a Re-emerging Health Aid
Complementary medicine is a formal method of health care in most countries of the ancient world. It is expected to become more…
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN ISLAM AND IRAN
As long as history remembers, medical science has always been part of man's life. In the beginning it was difficult to…
Prophets of Medicine and Medicine of the Prophet: Debates on Medical Theory…
Starting from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, an expanding corpus of medical treatises produced by scholars of religion of…
MANUAL PROCEDURE FOR MALAYSIA HALAL CERTIFICATION (THIRD REVISION) 2014
This Manual Procedure for Malaysia Halal Certification (Third Revision) 2014 (MPPHM 2014) contains guidelines for Department of…
Mathematics and the Islamic Architecture of Córdoba
10th-century Córdoba, mathematics—and particularly geometry—was applied to architectural design in new ways, constituting a…
Muslim Responses to Science’s Big Questions: Summary Report
Are Science and Religion/Islam compatible with each other? Or must they be separate as if operating in two very different and…
Foreword: The Relationship between Islam and Science in Recent Centuries
The Islamic world developed classical institutions of teaching, learning and research from the Abbasid period onwards. These…
Science Education in universities in the Muslim world: No longer contented…
In attempting to dwell on some of the issues related to education in general, and science in particular, it is prudent to seek…
Science Education in Universities in the Islamic World
How is science taught in Muslim universities? What are the languages being used? What are the credentials and pedagogical…
Should Religion Be Kept Out of the Science Classroom?
The issue at hand is whether or not religion should be kept out of the science classroom in the Muslim world and in particular…
Are universities of the Muslim World helping spread a Culture of Science…
Since the eruption of Islam from the Arabian deserts in the 7th century, there have been repeated clashes between East and West…
Science, Society & the University: 5 Propositions
Let us be clear on a few things, right at the outset: Science is not civilization. Science does not have a religion. Gravity…
STEM Education and the Muslim Gender Divide
It may come as a surprise that this opening statement was made by First Lady Michelle Obama (September 26, 2011) on the status…
THE CONCEPT OF ITQAN AND ITS ROLE IN MUSLIM PROFESSIONAL LIFE
Professional Ethics which concern one's conduct of behavior and practice when carrying out professional work needs Itqan. The…
POLITICAL ENGINEERING AND THE EXCLUSION OF RELIGIOUS CONSERVATIVE MUSLIMS…
In European politics and parliaments, the representation of Muslims living in Europe is vitally important in terms of social…
Byzantine–Early Islamic agricultural systems in the Negev Highlands: Stages…
An extensive survey followed by OSL (optically stimulated luminescence) dating of loess accumulation in agricultural terraces at…
Muslim Women in Agricultural Education and the Labor Force
Innovation for Agricultural Training and Education (InnovATE) is a USAID-funded project supporting the capacity development of…
Crafting the Agricultural product and loss sharing (aPLS) in the place of…
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The Arab Agricultural Revolution and Its Diffusion, 700-1100
THE rapid spread of Islam into three continents in the seventh and eighth centuries was followed by the diffusion of an equally…