Volume 2 Summer 2004 Number 1
Contents
Editorial
Shadhrah 3...............................................................................
3
Articles
Taskhir,
Fine-Tuning, Intelligent Design
and the Scientific Appreciation of Nature
cAdi Setia...............................................................................
7
Scientific Exegesis of
the Qurban—
A Viable Project?
Mustansir
Mir.........................................................................
33
Reflections on Some New
Studies on Applied Science
in Islamic Societies (8th-19th Centuries)
David A.
King.........................................................................
43
Ibn Sina–al-Biruni
Correspondence (3)
Translated by Rafik Berjak and Muzaffar Iqbal..............................
57
Views and Perspectives
An Unfortunate Response:
Iqbal on Gutas
David C. Reisman....................................................................
63
Review Article
Jan P. Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra:
The Enterprise of Science in Islam—
New Perspectives......................................................................
75
Book Reviews
Paul Lettinck:
Aristotle’s Meteorology and its
Reception in the Arab World......................................................
91
Sarah Stroumsa:
Freethinkers of Medieval Islam....................................................
94
Reviewed by Muzaffar Iqbal
Daniel A. Madigan:
The Qurban’s
Self-Image:
Writing and Authority in Islam’s Scripture....................................
100
Reviewed by Yamine Mermer
The End Matters
The State of the International
Religion-Science Discussion Today
Philip
Clayton ..................................................................................105