Full Lecture here..Some excerpts follow
“Many people feel that that in fact there is no such thing as the Islamic problem of science…three main positions which exist in the Islamic world today as far as the relationship between Islam and modern science is concerned…I am sure many of you in this room, and especially at a [...]
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Islam & Modern Science; Hossein Nasr to Muslims at MIT
Posted in Science in Islamic World on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Road not Travelled; World Bank Report on Education & Reforms-Feb 2008
Posted in Science in Islamic World on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With 75% of the MENA population being illiterate and 60% of these being under 30 years of age pose serious unemployment challenges in the future. About 100 million jobs will jabe to be created. Asia is overall picking up and ahead of Europe in education reforms and results… Find out deatiled data and further in the subject report [...]
Islamic Robot :)
Posted in Science in Islamic World on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is not to beat an old drum of Muslims dominance and introduction of science and technology to the world…but while searching for some information on robotics and humanoids it came to me as a surprise that the (so-called) first programmable “Robot” was made by a Muslim Scientist Al-Jazari during 1206. Interesting!
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Industrial Profile of the Muslim World
Posted in Science in Islamic World on March 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
COMSTECH is the Organization of Islamic Conference’s (OIC) Standing Committee on Science & Technology and has published a very good document with the subject title ” Industrial Profile of the Muslim World“. A bit old (data between 1985-1995) but is a good comprehensive picture of the socio-economic and industrial state of most of the Muslim [...]
Prioritizing Science and Technology
Posted in Pakistan, Science in Islamic World on March 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here, I refer to one of the articles “Prioritizing Science and Technology (http://www.chowk.com/show_article.cgi?aid=00003523&channel=university%20ave) by Omer Cheema during June 2004 quoting some basic statistics about the sorry state of science and technology in Pakistan. I agree to the title and follow-up discussion that getting our priorities right is the most important task.
HEC has taken up a [...]
Technology-Based Industrial Vision and Strategy for Pakistan’s Socio-Econmic Development (Draft, 2005)
Posted in Pakistan, Science in Islamic World on March 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
An excerpt from the subject publication’s introduction(pp. xxviii) by Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman elaborates the premise for sustained socio-economic development in today’s world. You can get the whole 318 pages document at: http://www.hec.gov.pk/htmls/about_hec/Technology%20Based%20Vision.pdf.
“New knowledge, particularly knowledge related to technology, drives the economic systems. Economic agents, including firms and governments, are forced to adapt to technical change in [...]
