Islamic Conception of Knowledge One of the distinctive features of Islam is its emphasis on knowledge. The Qur’an and the Islamic tradition (Sunnah) invite Muslims to seek and acquire knowledge and wisdom and to hold people of knowledge in high esteem. So ...
Zeinab Donati - 11/18/2016 - 05:00
Introduction In the Holy Qur’an the word al-‘ilm, knowledge, and its derivatives are used more than 780 times. The first few verses which were revealed to our Prophet (S) mention the importance of reading, pen, and teaching for human beings: اقْرَأْ بِاسْ ...
Zeinab Donati - 11/18/2016 - 05:00
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Beneficent The Aim of Understanding Nature Nature means the physical world, which is, the world with which we come into contact through our senses. In the Holy Qur’an, there are more than 750 verses in reference to th ...
Zeinab Donati - 11/18/2016 - 05:00
2245 views Dr. Mehdi Golshani In the past, ethical considerations were a concern of all believing scientists, both in the Islamic and the Western world. This perspective has dramatically changed in our age. The development of science and technology under ...
Zeinab Donati - 08/13/2019 - 15:17
Mehdi Golshani ***** Mehdi Golshani is Professor of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, P.O. Box 11365-9161, Tehran, Iran and Director, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, P.O. Box 14155-1871, Tehran, Iran. Email: [email protected]. *** ...
Zeinab Donati - 01/11/2018 - 04:58
2024 views Dr. Mehdi Golshani This paper deals with the ethics of Science concluding that Science has to serve humanity and moral ethics in order to improve human condition and should not be used as a mean of domination and destruction. General General Et ...
Zeinab Donati - 08/13/2019 - 15:18
Mehdi Golshani ***** Mehdi Golshani is Professor of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, P.O. Box 11365-9161, Tehran, Iran and Director, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, P.O. Box 14155-1871, Tehran, Iran. Email: [email protected]. *** ...
Zeinab Donati - 01/11/2018 - 05:02
2243 views Dr. Mehdi Golshani In this paper, the author elaborates on several crucial theological problems which have to do with the role of science in providing some evidence for the existence of God and purpose in nature. General General General Science ...
Zeinab Donati - 08/13/2019 - 15:17
Mehdi Golshani ***** Dr. Mehdi Golshani is professor of Physics at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran & Director, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran. This paper was originally presented to Science and the Spiritual ...
Zeinab Donati - 01/11/2018 - 05:06
2521 views Dr. Mehdi Golshani This text comprises eight questions and answers on the subject of whether or not science can or not be completely separated from religion. Some of the issues mentioned are if science and religion can coexist, when the divisio ...
Zeinab Donati - 08/13/2019 - 15:18
by Mehdi Golshani ***** Mehdi Golshani is Professor of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, P.O. Box 11365-9161, Tehran, Iran and Director, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, P.O. Box 14155-1871, Tehran, Iran. Email: [email protected]. ...
Zeinab Donati - 01/11/2018 - 05:09
1520 views Dr. Mehdi Golshani This text analyzes the results of a survey about the relationship between science and religion. Fifty-eight scholars and scientists respond to eight fundamental questions which cover some of the most important areas of scienc ...
Zeinab Donati - 08/13/2019 - 15:17
Mehdi Golshani Mehdi Golshani is Professor of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and Director, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran. Email: [email protected] First Published in: Islam & Science, Vol. 3 ...
Zeinab Donati - 05/09/2018 - 03:41
3811 views Dr. Mehdi Golshani Mutahhari’s Encounter with Modern Science Mehdi Golshani Originally published in Islamic Studies 43:2 (2004) pp. 293–303 11 ***** Modern science found its way to the Islamic world in the beginning of the nineteenth century, g ...
Zeinab Donati - 08/13/2019 - 15:19
The great scholar and brilliant Islamic thinker, as-Sayyid Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr, one of the great scholars and jurists of Imami (Twelvers) Shi'ism, in the noble city of an-Najaf al-Ashraf, Iraq, is too well known through his works and originality o ...
Aliwaale - 01/09/2013 - 00:24
In the name of God the All-merciful, the Compassionate I have been requested by some of our great scholars, a large number of our students and other believers to follow the guidance and example of the great scholars before us, in investigating a subject w ...
Aliwaale - 01/09/2013 - 00:24
Belief in God, The Exalted ﷲ سبﺣﺎ نه و تعالى God, Praised and Exalted be He Since the earliest times of human history, man had attained faith in God, worshipped Him alone in sincerity and manifested a deep relationship with Him. This took place before man ...
Aliwaale - 01/09/2013 - 00:24
Introduction: The General Phenomenon of Prophethood Everything in this vast universe carries with it its strict divine law which directs it and aids it to rise to the highest possible levels of fulfillment. Thus the seed, under the rule of its specific la ...
Aliwaale - 01/09/2013 - 00:24
Islam As for the message, it is Islam, the religion of God with which He sent Muhammad, Allah's blessings and peace be upon him and his household, as a mercy to humankind. 1 The first and foremost purpose of Islam is the establishment of a relationsh ...
Aliwaale - 01/09/2013 - 00:24
ADAM: non-being, the opposite of wujud (existence). AWSIYA': vicegerents or representative of the Prophet, referring specifically to the twelve Imams. BASATAH: simplicity; as a philosophical term, it refers to an uncomposite thing or being, which is ...
Aliwaale - 01/09/2013 - 00:24
