At present “Islamic Architecture” is a controversial topic of debate within architectural forums, very much talked about but lacking a clear definition. Saudi Arabia, birth place of Islam, modern pin-up board for many an example of “islamic architecture”, has cause to be intimately linked with the area concerned and has initiated a programme for its...Read More

The integration of Islamic education with learning of science and technology is expected to be meaningful and easily understandable so that the goal of Islamic education in leading the students to recognize, understand, contemplate, believe, be piety, and have noble character in implementing the teachings of Islam from the primary source i.e. the holy book...Read More

Are Science and Religion/Islam compatible with each other? Or must they be separate as if operating in two very different and almost non-overlapping spheres? Could scientists be believers, or does embracing modern science also mean embracing a certain atheistic or agnostic viewpoint in one’s personal life? Should choosing to do science force an individual to...Read More

The Islamic world developed classical institutions of teaching, learning and research from the Abbasid period onwards. These institutions supported scholarly activities that gained a new vigour and dynamism during the Ottoman period: thousands of students were educated in the hundreds of medreses (schools or academies), both old and new, throughout the Ottoman empire. By 1600,...Read More