The Story of Islamic Science
This video from a keynote presentation in Qatar in 2011 presents two lectures, one contextualizing the “decline” thesis of Islamic science by George Saliba, and the other, by Charles Falco, discussing the Islamic optical scientist, Ibn al-Haytham.
20 Oct 2013
Islamic Civilization and Astronomy
George Saliba sets out to debunk two myths about “Islamic science” — that it only carried forward Greek scientific ideas, and that “modern science” was created sui generis in Europe during the Renaissance.
18 Sep 2012
Scientific Proof for the Existence of Allah
This animated video by “Ask A Muslim” uses scientific ideas to suggest that humans must have been specifically created rather than coming about “by chance”.
14 Dec 2014
The Relativity of Time
This Turkish video clip suggests that part of Einstein’s theory of relativity is presented in three verses of the Qurʾān.
25 Sep 2008
Discover Space/Galaxies to Discover Islam
This videos uses a “Hubble Minute” video, perhaps from 2005, as a base upon which to overlay a Qurʾānic verse and some vague proselytizing material based on the information apparently being in the Qurʾān but unknowable to people of the 7th century.
2 Oct 2008
The Moon cracked says NASA and the Quran
This video shows that the Moon is geologically active, as understood through lobate scarps, which demonstrate how the surface of the Moon has changed as it has shrunk. The only Islamic material consists of labels added by the uploader.
29 Jun 2011
Is there life on other planets?
Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928-2003) answers a question about extraterrestrial life on other planets.
4 Jan 2011
There are no scientific miracles in the Quran, part 2
Hamza Tzortzis and Imran Hussein present their multi-layered, multi-level approach to interpreting scientific miracles in the Qurʾān.
7 Oct 2015
Islam and the Transformation of Greek Science
George Saliba uses the mathematical and astronomical information necessary to determine the times for the five daily Muslim prayers (ṣalāt) as just one example of how culture and science interact.
1 May 2011
Muslim Contributions to Science
Timothy Winters, also known as Abdal Hakim Murad, presents some of the major scientific scholars of the 9th-13 centuries.
25 Jan 2014
Islamic Science & the Making of the European Renaissance
George Saliba discusses the complex ways in which ancient Greek sciences and mathematics were studied and augmented in the Islamicate world, as well as completely new ideas added, and then the whole was utilized by European scientists who thrived during the Renaissance.
1 May 2011
Muslim Contributions to Mathematics, Science, Technology and Medicine
Abdullah Hakin Quick presents a summary of the ways Muslims from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries excelled in mathematics and exact sciences.
25 June 2011