Muzaffar Iqbal is the founder-president of Center for Islam and Science (www.cis-ca.org), Canada, and editor of Islam & Science, a semi-annual journal of Islamic perspectives on science. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry (University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1983), but most of his published work is related to Islam and Islamic intellectual tradition, including the Islamic scientific tradition. He did his post-doctoral work at the Montreal Neurological Institute of the McGill University, where he developed medicine for tracing brain tumours.

Born in Lahore, Pakistan, he has lived in Canada since 1979. He has held academic and research positions at University of Saskatchewan (1979-1984), University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984-85), and McGill University (1986). During 1990-1999, he lived and worked in Pakistan, first as Director (Scientific Information) for the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) and later as Director (International Cooperation), Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He is the editor of Islam & Science, a semi-annual journal of Islamic perspectives on science.

Iqbal has published papers on the history of philosophy of science, history of Islamic science and on the relationship between Islam and science in various international journals. He is also the author of two novels, Inkhila (Uprooting, 1988) and Inqta (Severance, 1994); a book on the history of the Independence Movement of Pakistan (1977); a book on the life and works of Herman Melville (1996) and several short stories and poems. His fiction and translations have appeared in literary journals in Pakistan, Canada, and the United States. His publications include a bilingual (Arabic-Urdu) edition of the poetry of the tenth century mystic, Mansur al-Hallaj, Divan al-Hallaj (1997, reprinted 2000), and an anthology of Pakistani short stories, Colours of Loneliness (Oxford University Press, 1999). A scientist by training, an Islamic scholar by vocation, a novelist, and a poet, Iqbal’s other publications include Islam and Science (Ashgate, 2002) and God, Life and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives (co-ed., Ashgate, 2002). He co-translated volume VII of Tafhim al-Qur’an, one of the most influential twentieth century commentaries on the Qur’an (Islamic Foundation, 2001).

His more recent publications are: Science and Islam (Greenwood Press, 2007),  Islam, Science, Muslims, and Technology: Seyyed Hossein Nasr in Conversation with Muzaffar Iqbal (Al-Qalam Publishing and Islamic Book Trust, 2007),  Dawn in Madinah: A Pilgrim’s Passage (Islamic Book Trust, 2007), Dew on Sunburnt Roses and other Quantum Notes (Dost Publications, 2007), and Definitive Encounters: Islam, Muslims, and the West (Islamic Book Trust, 2008). His forthcoming book is The Occident in an Islamic Mirror.