The "Islamization of Disciplines" is one of a number of ambitious projects which over the last three decades have sought to create a genuine Islamic approach to modern Western science and technology. The relatively recent date of these movements, however, should not create the impression that Muslims were not committed to the pursuit of and conscious reflection on science in the preceding centuries. Though much of the historical knowledge about modern science in Islamic countries was lost in the colonial and post-colonial eras, time seems now ripe to bring together what a still minuscule number of historians of science have been able to rescue from oblivion (see davo) and what contemporary Muslim scholars have been developing in the 20th century (see kalam).
For the proposed panel on "Science and Islam" at the IAMES conference in Berlin on October 4-8, 2000 ( http://www.fu-berlin.de/iames/ ) papers are invited from both fields of scholarship: "Islamic Science" and the History of modern science in Islamic countries (roughly, 1600-2000 AD). As the deadline of the IAMES congress is very close, possible contributors are kindly invited to contact as soon as possible the program co-ordinater Amr Hamzawy and the panel
co-ordinator Rainer Brömer
7th IAMES Congress
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Ihnestr. 31
D-14195 Berlin
Germany
*and* the panel co-ordinator Rainer Broemer
Institut f. Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Humboldtallee 11
D-37073 GOETTINGEN
Tel. +49-551-39-9468
Fax: +49-551-39-9748
E-mail: Rainer.Broemer@gmx.de
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