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Islam actually paved the way for scientific advancements. Here is one example of the relationship between Islam and astronomy.
Since Muslim ulema was critical of astrology due to its religious implication, it was always looked down upon. But this led to-
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Islam actually paved the way for scientific advancements. Here is one example of the relationship between Islam and astronomy.
Since Muslim ulema was critical of astrology due to its religious implication, it was always looked down upon. But this led to-
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scholars focusing on strict empirical observation and leaving behind the metaphysical and ideological baggage that a lot of people in pre-islamic times used to bring with the study of celestial bodies and stars.
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This antagonism towards astrology and its need to be removed from the general public, Muslim ulema took it upon themselves to study and refine astronomy (or ilm al-haya [the sciences of the heavenly bodies])
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"..it is important to recount that the religious critiques not only produced two different scientific disciplines but had a general impact on the other sciences. The simple requirement to face Mecca definitely required the solutionon of one of the most sophisticated-
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spherical trigonometrical problems, known as the qibla problem[...] Such kind of trignometric functions was not known to Greeks" (p. 186-7)
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![spherical trigonometrical problems, known as the qibla problem[...] Such kind of trignometric functi...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwLvKU7aQAE1UYI.png)
In short, the discipline of trigonometry is the best example that demonstrates the intersection of interests between the practice of one's religion and the scientific thinking that had to be developed as a result of that practice."
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The close association between religion and scientific thinking in Islam
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That's why all of the great scientists were ulema as well. Read the examples in these screenshots. It includes Al-shattir (who, along with Shirazi, Tusi and Khafri, inspired Copernicus), Tusi, Khaafri, Qushji, Shirazi, Iji etc.
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Take another example of medicine and Islam:
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Lastly, here is another example of how al-Ghazali's critique of the falasifa led to the advancements in intellectual sciences
"Al-Ghazali should with more justification than Aristotelians like Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushdsomeone who laid the foundation 10/
"Al-Ghazali should with more justification than Aristotelians like Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushdsomeone who laid the foundation 10/
f the modern methods of the natural sciences- based on experience (tajriba). The deductive epistemology of Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd would have not led humanity to formulate the basis of modern physics and the natural sciences.
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Al-Ghazali’s epistemology laid the groundwork for important scientific achievements in Islam after the 11th century."
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