On a hill to the west of the city of Maragha in northern Iran lie the remains of an observatory. Built for astronomer Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in the 13th century, this observatory was home to a variety ...

In the 13th century, the Mongol invasions swept across the Islamic world, leaving destruction in their wake. Libraries, observatories, and centers of learning were destroyed, scattering scholars and ...

Additional plates or discs which Arab scientists invented. They were used as supplementary tools to be inserted into astronomical instruments like the astrolabe to supplement its functions. There is ...

BBC Four's 3-part series 'Islam & Science' starts tonight, and presenter, physicist Jim Al-Khalili, begins by discussing 'the language of science'. In an article today, he also discusses the work of ...

While much of Europe was stuck in the Dark Ages, the spread of Islam led to innovations in math, science, and medicine. These ...

The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...

More Islamic-school students in years 11 to 12 are enrolled in science and maths than other students in Australia. In our study of Islamic-school students’ career aspirations, about 28% of our sample ...

The McMullen Museum of Art has unveiled an extraordinary exhibition—Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World—which bridges centuries of Islamic intellectual achievement ...

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A new anthology is working to give geeky Muslims a bigger voice in science fiction with a collection of short stories both based on and inspired by Islamic culture. Islam and Science Fiction founder ...

Thousands of medieval Islamic tombs in eastern Sudan were arranged in hard-to-detect patterns, with sacred "parent" tombs hosting subclusters of emanating burials, according to archaeologists who ...

A direct English translation of the Arabic word 'ilm علم is "knowledge", but the Arabic appellation is pregnant with meanings that transcend what knowledge implied for the likes of Plato, Pythagoras, ...