Thanks so much, Nick, for sharing Muzaffar Iqbal's important book. May I add (not on the longer list), Abdulaziz Sachedina's book, "The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism", Oxford U. Press, 2001. He wrote this with the support of a colleague of mine at CSIS when we were working together in the late 90s.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:33 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Friam Colleagues, > > > > Some weeks ago, you-all expressed an interest in the flowering of Islamic > scientific though that anticipated, and may have caused, a similar > flowering during the, so called, Western enlightenment. In response, I > wrote to my Iranian colleague Hossein Najafizideh (he who ran a fascinating > blog on the history and conditions for such flowerings on Research Gate on > which I got to sharpen my ideas on Peirce and Pragmaticism) to ask if he > could provide me with an web-accessible source for FRIAM to chew on. One > of the sources (not web-accessible) that he provided was to the work of > Seyyed Hossein Nasr, whom I also wrote. The whole correspondence, with Dr. > Nasr’s research assistant, is below. (Yes, I did mix up his name in my > first letter, and he deserves credit for not writing me off as a complete > idiot.) > > > > Before I forget, I am providing you with the link his office provided me, > after some back and forth. > > > http://traditionalhikma.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Islam-Science-Muslims-and-Technology-Seyyed-Hossein-Nasr-in-Conversation-with-Muzaffar-Iqbal-2009.pdf > > > > It seems NOT to work in firefox, but worked well for me in Chrome/Google. > > > > I have not yet looked it over, but It looks like, from the table of > contents, etc., everything I could have hoped for. > > > > You have every right not to dig into it until I have, but I am still up to > my neck in deskdrek, and would love it if one of you could be the first > penguin off the ice flow. > > > > You might want, some day, to “meet” my collegue Dr. Najafizadeh, to whom I > owe great deal. Since he is in Iran, and I have no idea what constraints > might exist on intellectual life in Iran, I am not providing his email > address here, lest I unwittingly stir some pot. But if any few of you care > to be in touch, I am pretty sure I can link you up. > > > > Nick > > > > Nick Thompson > > [email protected] > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Seyyed Hossein Nasr <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 21, 2021 12:34 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [EXT] Re: MyGW Directory Contact Form: The Islamic > Flowering > > > > I would recommend this book *Islam, Science, Muslims and Technology*, > which is an extensive series of conversations that Dr. Nasr had with one of > the leading intellectuals of Pakistan, Muzaffar Iqbal. This text is > available online for free and to download at: > > > http://traditionalhikma.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Islam-Science-Muslims-and-Technology-Seyyed-Hossein-Nasr-in-Conversation-with-Muzaffar-Iqbal-2009.pdf > > Sincerely, > > David > > > > > On Behalf of: > > Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr > University Professor of Islamic Studies > The George Washington University > 2130 H Street, NW | GW Libraries and Academic Innovations, Suite 709 R > Washington, DC 20052 > Phone: (202) 994-5704 | E-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 3:15 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Dr. Dukake, > > > > Thank you so very much for compiling this list for me. I shall not only > forward it on to my colleagues but treasure it myself. > > > > However, I know my colleagues well enough that while they may treasure the > list, and keep it for future reference, they would be more likely to read > something now if it were (1) available on the web (2) and spoke narrowly to > the Islamic contribution to modern scientific and mathematical thought. > Perhaps you and/or Professor Nasr could provide some suggestions that > would seduce my colleagues into exploiting the wider list. Mind you these > are very sophisticated software engineers, physicists, etc., so they [think > they] know what science is. What they know they don’t know is Islamic > contributions to it. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Nick Thompson > > > > > > > > Nick Thompson > > [email protected] > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Seyyed Hossein Nasr <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, September 19, 2021 1:38 PM > *To:* Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [EXT] Re: MyGW Directory Contact Form: The Islamic Flowering > > > > Dear Mr. Thompson, > > Dr. Nasr asked me to forward to you this list of important sources on the > issues of "religion and science" that he has compiled. He hopes this will > aid you in finding what you are looking for. > > Sincerely, > > David Dakake > > Research Assistant to Dr. S.H. Nasr > > > > Bakar, O., *Critique of Evolutionary Theory*, Kuala Lumpur, 1987. > > Barbour, I., *Issues in Science and Religion*, New York, 1971. > > Barbour, I., *Religion in an Age of Science*, San Francisco, 1990. > > Bohm, D., *The Implicate Order*, New York, 1980. > > Brunner, F., *Science et Realite*, Paris, 1955. > > Burckardt, T., *Alchemy Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul*, > Baltimore, 1971. > > Burrell, D. and McGinn B., *God and Creation: An Ecumenical Symposium*, > Notre Dame, 1990. > > Burtt, E. A., *Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science*, New > York, 1967. > > Butterfield, H., *Origins of Modern Science*, New York, 1959. > > Capra, F., *The Tao of Physics*, New York, 1977. > > Clayton (ed.), *The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science*, Oxford. > > Coomaraswamy, A. K., *Am I My Brother’s Keeper?* New York, 1947. > > Cornford, F., *From Religion to Philosophy. A Study of the Origins of > Western Speculation*, New York, 1957. > > Cornford, F., *Principium Sapientiae: The Origins of Greek Philosophical > Thought*, Cambridge (U. K.), 1952. > > Critchlow, K.,* Time Stands Still*, London, 1979. > > Debus, A., *Man and Nature in the Renaissance*, Cambridge (U. K.), 1978. > > Del Re, Giuseppe., *The Cosmic Dance*, Philadelphia, 2000. > > Eddington, A. E., *The Nature of the Physical World*, Cambridge (U. K.), > 1949. > > Eliade, M., *Yoga, Immortality and Freedom*, Princeton, 1970. > > Guenon, R., *The Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the Times*, Baltimore, > 1972. > > Haught, J., *Science and Religion – From Conflict to Conversation*, New > York, 1995. > > Haught,J. *Science and Religion in Search of Cosmic Purpose*, Georgetown > University Press. > > Iqbal, Muzaffar., *Islam and Science*, Burlington, 2002. > > Jammer, M., *Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics*, > Cambridge, 1961. > > Kayser, H., *Akroasis, The Theory of World Harmonics*, New York, 1970. > > Koyre, A., *From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe*, Baltimore, > 1957. > > Lipsey, R., (ed), *Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish*, 3 Vols., Princeton, > 1977. > > McClain, E., *The Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics > and Music from the Rig Veda to Plato*, Boulder, 1978. > > Maritain, J., *The Degrees of Knowledge*, New York, 1938. > > Maritain, J., *The Philosophy of Nature*, New York, 1951. > > Nasr, S. H., *An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines*, Albany, > (N.Y.), 1993. > > Nasr, S. H., *Man and Nature*, London, 1989. > > Nasr, S. H., *Knowledge and the Sacred*, Albany, (N. Y.) 1989. > > Nasr, S. H., *Religion and the Order of Nature*, Oxford, 1996. > > Nasr, *The Need for a Sacred Science*, SUNY. > > Needham, J., *Moulds of Understanding*, London, 1976. > > Needham, J., *Science and Civilization in China*, Cambridge, (U. K.), 1954 > on. > > Needleman, J., *A Sense of the Cosmos, The Encounter of Modern Science & > Ancient Truth*, New York, 1977. > > Needleman, J., (ed.), *The Sword of Gnosis*, Baltimore, 1974. > > Northbourne, Lord, *Looking Back on Progress*, London, 1970. > > Northrop, F. S., *Man, Nature and God*, New York, 1972. > > Polanyi, M., *Science, Faith and Society*, Chicago, 1964. > > Raven, C. E., *Science, Religion and the Future*, Cambridge (U. K.), 1943. > > Roszak, Th., *Unfinished Animal*, New York, 1975. > > Roszak, Th., *Where the Wasteland Ends*, New York, 1973. > > Sambursky, S., *Physics of the Stoics*, New York, 1973. > > De Santillana, G., and H. von Dechend, *Hamlet’s Mill*, Boston, 1969. > > De Santillana, G., *Origins of Scientific Thought*, New York, 1961. > > Schrodinger, E. *Mind and Matter*, Cambridge (U. K.), 1958. > > Schrodinger, E. *My View of the World*, Cambridge (U. K.), 1964. > > Schumacher, E. F., *Guide for the Perplexed*, New York, 1978. > > Schwaller de Lubicz, R. A., *The Temple in Man: The Secrets of Ancient > Egypt*, New York, 1977. > > Smith, H., *Beyond the Post Modern Mind*, New York, 1981. > > Smith, H., *Forgotten Truth, The Primodial Tradtioan*, New York, 1977. > > Smith, H. *Why Religion Matters?*, San Francisco, 2001. > > Smith, W., *Teilhardism and the New Religion*, Rockford (ILL.), 1988. > > Smith, W., *The Quantum Enigma*, Peru (ILL.) 1984. > > Smith, W., *The Wisdom of Ancient Cosmologies: Contemporary Science in > the Light of Tradition,* Foundation for Traditional Studies. > > Smith, W., *Science and Myth: What We are Never Told*, Sophia Perennis. > > Whitehead, A. N., *The Concept of Nature*, Cambridge (U. K.), 1971. > > Whitehead, A. N., *Religion in the Making*, New York, 1960. > > Yates, F., *Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition*, London, 1964. > > Yates, F., *The Rosicrucian Enlightenment*, Boston, 1972. > > Zaehner, R. C., *Evolution in Religion: A Study of Sri Aurobindo and > Pierre Teilhard de Chardin*, Oxford, 1971. > > Zukav, G., *The Dancing Wu Li Masters, New York*, 1984. > > > > > On Behalf of: > > Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr > University Professor of Islamic Studies > The George Washington University > 2130 H Street, NW | GW Libraries and Academic Innovations, Suite 709 R > Washington, DC 20052 > Phone: (202) 994-5704 | E-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 4:31 PM Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > The following e-mail has been sent to you through the "Send Seyyed an > E-mail" form on the myGW online directory. > > This email was sent via the myGW Online Directory Form, which is available > for public use. *Proceed with caution when replying.* If you feel that > the message below appears suspicious, please forward it to [email protected]. > If you ever have any questions about the validity of a message you receive, > contact the IT Support Center at 202-994-4948, [email protected] or > http://it.gwu.edu. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > From: Nicholas Thompson ([email protected]) > > Subject: The Islamic Flowering > > To: Seyyed > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: > > Dear Professor Hossein, > > > > I am a member of an online group broadly interested in computation, > mathematics, physics, and the philosophy of science, which recently expressed > an interest in the flowering of intellectual life in the Muslim world that > occurred before the Western "enlightenment'. I wanted to provide some means > for them to pursue that interest. I have an Iranian correspondent who > supplied me with some sources, mostly old, and your name. Knowing of the > neophilic predilections of my list members, I wondered if you might provide > me with references to some more easily available texts, journal articles > perhaps, possibly some available on the web? > > > > Please contact me as nthompson@[URL Removed]. > > > > Thank you so much for taking the time to read this note. > > > > All the best, > > > > Nicholas S. 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