Volume 4    Winter 2006    Number 2

Contents

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Editorial

Shadhra 8

On the Sanctity of Species

Muzaffar Iqbal ................................................................ 89
 

Articles

In the Beginning:
Islamic Perspectives on Cosmological Origins--II
Muzaffar Iqbal 
  ................................................................................... 93

 

 

Atomism Versus Hylomorphism in the Kalam of
al-Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: A Preliminary Survey
of the Matalib al-Aliyyah
Adi Setia
.............................................................................................. 113
 

Reading the Signs: A Qur'anic Perspective
on Thinking
Mohammad Hashim Kamali
............................................................ 141

Ibn Sina-al-Biruni Correspondence (VII)
Translated by Rafik Berjak and Muzaffar Iqbal
............................ 165

 

Book Reviews
The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture
Volume 2: The Individual and Society in Islam
A. Bouhdiba (Chief Editor) and
M. Maruf al-Dawalibi (Co-Editor)


Volume 4: Science and Technology in Islam
Prof. A. Y. al-Hassan (Editor), Prof. Maqbul Ahmed,
and Prof. A. Z. Iskandar (Co-Editors)


Volume 5: Culture and Learning in Islam
Ekmeleddine Ihsanoğlu (Chief Editor
) ......................................................... 173
 

The Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings
by Muhammad Ali Khalidi (ed.)
................................................................... 175
Reviewed by Muzaffar Iqbal
 

Science in the Medieval Hebrew and
 Arabic Traditions

by Gad Freudenthal
  ......................................................................................177
 

Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy
in Early Modern Europe

William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton (eds.) ..................................... 178

Reviewed by Yashab Tur

The End Matters

On the Question of Biological Origins
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
.................................................................................179

 

 

 

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Islam & Science, Vol. 4 (Winter 2006) No. 2

copyright (c) 2006 Center for Islam and Science

 

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