First stage of Islamic scientific development was essentially an assimilation of imported knowledge and Muslim scholars had only a secondary role to play as translators.
— Pervez Hoodbhoy Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality
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About 700 years ago, Islamic civilization almost completely lost the will and ability to do science. Since that time, apart from attempts during the Ottoman period and in Mohammed Ali's Egypt, there have been no significant efforts at recovery. Many Muslims acknowledge, and express profound regret at, this fact. Indeed, this is the major preoccupation of the modernist faction in Islam. But most traditionalists feel no regret - in fact, many welcome this loss because, in their view, keeping a distance from science helps preserve Islam from corrupting, secular influences.
— Pervez Hoodbhoy Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality
Tags: traditionalism, science, islam
Science may have transformed the world into a global village, but it has yet to teach the villagers to learn to talk with and understand each other.
— Pervez Hoodbhoy Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality
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Muslims – who comprise one-fifth of all humanity - will continue to suffer an undignified and degraded existence if science, and particularly a rational approach to human problems, is considered alien to Islamic culture.
— Pervez Hoodbhoy Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality
Tags: science, islamic-culture
Civilization, as we know it today, is defined in large measure by science.
— Pervez Hoodbhoy Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality
Tags: science, civilization
To conclude, there is nothing in Muslim mathematics which could be called Islamic mathematics. If there is a difference, then that difference is simply that Muslim civilization did better than any of the others for the 500 years of its Golden Age
— Pervez Hoodbhoy Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality
Tags: science, muslims, islam
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