00910nam a22001337a 4500020001500000082001200015100002000027245009200047260003300139300003100172505004900203520047100252700005300723  a1856490254  a297.265  aPervez Hoodbhoy  aIslam and Science : Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for RationalitycPervez Hoodbhoy  aLondonbZed Books Ltd.c1991  axv,157 Pagesb13x21 cmbPB  aInclude Appendix, Tables, Figures and Index.  aIn 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.  aPreface/Foreword by Abdus Salam, Mohammed, Prof.