Pervez Hoodbhoy
Islam and Science : Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality Pervez Hoodbhoy - London Zed Books Ltd. 1991 - xv,157 Pages 13x21 cm PB
Include Appendix, Tables, Figures and Index.
In this book, Dr. Hoodbhoy, a nuclear physicist, eloquently and usefully draws attention to the plight of science and technology in the Muslim world and to the need to do something about it. The book also makes some other helpful insights here and there about why, after centuries of brilliant achievements, science suffered such a fate in the Muslim world. But the book also suffers from some very serious flaws in its view of Islam and analysis of Islamic history.
1856490254
297.265
Islam and Science : Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality Pervez Hoodbhoy - London Zed Books Ltd. 1991 - xv,157 Pages 13x21 cm PB
Include Appendix, Tables, Figures and Index.
In this book, Dr. Hoodbhoy, a nuclear physicist, eloquently and usefully draws attention to the plight of science and technology in the Muslim world and to the need to do something about it. The book also makes some other helpful insights here and there about why, after centuries of brilliant achievements, science suffered such a fate in the Muslim world. But the book also suffers from some very serious flaws in its view of Islam and analysis of Islamic history.
1856490254
297.265