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The reluctance of the Muslim world to embrace science is manifest in the disproportionately small amount of scientific output, as measured by citations of articles published in internationally circulating science journals, annual expenditures on research and development, and numbers of research scientists and engineers. [45]
The Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and Sunnah is an organization established to publicize what it calls "Scientific Signs found in the Quran and Sunna", i.e. references to what it believes are numerous discoveries of science (everything from relativity, quantum mechanics, Big Bang theory, genetics, embryology, to the laser) found in the Quran and Sunnah).
Science in the broadest sense refers to any system of knowledge attained by verifiable means and in a narrower sense to a system of acquiring knowledge based on empiricism, experimentation, and methodological naturalism, as well as to the organized body of knowledge humans have gained by such research.
The Muslim Association for the Advancement of Science (MAAS) is an association of Muslim scientists focused on promoting the advancement of science and technology among Muslims. It was established in India by M. Z. Kirmani in 1983.
It focuses on mastery of modern sciences, understanding Islamic knowledge in various fields, and establishing the relevance of Islamic values to contemporary academic disciplines. Al-Faruqi's approach critiques Western epistemologies and recasts them within an Islamic worldview, harmonizing ethical and intellectual pursuits with the tenets of ...
It only indexes journals from the Islamic world. It was announced in Baku, Azerbaijan during the Fourth Islamic Conference of the Ministers of Higher Education and Scientific Research held in October 2008. [1] It is managed by the Islamic World Science Citation Center, located in Shiraz.
"Islam - Science and Civilization in Islam". The British Journal for the History of Science. 4 (4). Cambridge University Press (CUP): 416.
I have no objection to renaming this article to Muslim attitudes toward science if there's a consensus that the article is more reflective of Muslim views than Islamic views, but insofar as the article reports the views of scholars in the context of Islam and not Muslim culture, the article seems titled properly now. ~Anachronist 00:41, 13 ...