Holy scripture or scientific text? The Quran is both
Clare Forestier presents a non-standard interpretation of verses 86:7-14 of the Quran.
2 Aug 2018
Stop Spamming’s Comment on ‘Reacting to Dr. Zakir Naik’s Scientific Miracles #4’
An evaluation of Stop Spamming’s comment on Mohammed Hijab and Mohammed Osman’s fourth video supporting scientific miracles.
14 Jan 2018
Islam and Contemporary Science: Partners, Enemies or Strangers?
Nidhal Guessoum, author and astrophysicis, joins moderator Stefano Bigliari to answer prepared questions from students in al-Akhawayn University in Morocco.
4 Apr 2018
Physics of the Night Journey of Prophet Muhammad
This video blog attempts to explain the “Night Journey” of the Prophet Muhammad by calling on concepts from modern physics.
4 Nov 2017
Ideas for Change – Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Zewail, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999, discusses the importance of education for world development, including education about biological evolution.
18 Mar 2013
Abdus Salam: The Dream of Symmetry
An evaluation of a documentary of Abdus Salam (1926-96), a Nobel prize winner in Physics. The 2011 documentary presents his biography and science.
22 Oct 2016
Chemistry: The Search for the Philosopher’s Stone
Jim al-Khalili examines ideas that have been attributed to Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (fl. ca. 721-ca. 815 CE) about methods used in early chemical experiments.
3 Nov 2015
Optics: The True Nature of Light
Al-Khalili in this half-hour documentary looks at the works and processes of several medieval Arabic scientists who worked on optics and the nature of light, as well as contemporary Middle Eastern scientists who work with light.
6 Oct 2015
Science Story-telling from Home
Dr. Islam Hussein, a native of Egypt, discusses how he became involved in science communication on video, primarily in Arabic, in 2016 at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.
26 Nov 2016
Iron in the Quran
Zaghloul An Najjar discusses the element iron and how it came to be on Earth in this video from 2014.
5 May 2016
Earthquakes in the Quran and Sunnah
Zaghloul An-Najjar discusses a Muslim moral framing for natural disasters, like earthquakes and hurricanes.
7 Jun 2011
The Clash of Reason and Revelation: Reconciling Science and Scripture in Islam
Mohamed AbuTaleb uses this 2012 lecture to share what he considers to have been missing in the intellectual discourse on science: The Qurʾān.
13 Oct 2012
