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
The Book of Signs: There are no scientific miracles in the Qur’an
Imran Hussein and Hamza Tzortzis suggest why the global Muslim narratives that use scientific “facts” to “prove” the miraculousness of the Qurʾān should no longer be used.
30 Sep 2015
The Source of the Faculties is the Soul: Pre-modern Islamic Medicine and its Relation to Philosophy and Religion
Nahyan Fancy discusses how the concepts of spirit and soul were integrated into both medical understandings of the body and its physiology, and how resurrection might occur, given those understandings of physiology.
20 Feb 2013
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
How do Muslims view science and evolution?
Salman Hameed gives a brief survey of Muslim ideas about science in the world today, followed by a longer question and answer session with media host Angie Coiro.
20 Jan 2012
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
Arab Astronomy
Chris Impey describes how science continued during the European “dark ages” in the Islamic world in this overly brief video.
6 Jul 2010
Islam and science: beyond the troubled relationship
Ziauddin Sardar discusses the historical relationships between Islam, science and colonialism, and what needs to change for contemporary Muslim societies to advance in especially the exact sciences.
10 Dec 2013
The Islamic Golden Age
This clip from Islam: Empire of Faith starts about 200 years after the death of the Prophet Muḥammad in 632 CE and continues to the beginning of the Ottomans in the 14th century.
14 Dec 2011
The hidden Islamic sciences (Welt der Wunder)
This undated clip from the German TV show “Welt der Wunder” suggests a method by which science traveled from the Middle East via rulers who were familiar with both Christian and Islamic cultures and supported local Muslim scholars.
11 Sep 2007