Islamic Thought

Islamic Thought

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Author: S Waqar Ahmed Husaini
Publisher: Goodword Books
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 252
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8178980223

Description

Islamic Thought in the Rise and Supremacy of Islamic Technological Culture: Water Resources and Energy, brings out the role of Islamic ideological culture in the birth, rise, and world supremacy of Islamic technological culture during the First to Eighth AH (Seventh to fourteenth AD) centuries. Examples are given from the history of water resources and energy. Islamic ideology refers to implications for the two cultures of the Quranic concept of God and prophethood; the Kitab al-Kharaj books on the Traditions of Prophet Muhammad; Islamic law, esp land tenure and environmental laws; economics; politics and administration; etc.

The primary beneficiaries of these Islamic cultures during the early centuries, when Muslims were a minority in the Islamic world-states, were the non-Muslim majorities; the later, therefore, embraced Islam first gradually and later on rapidly. The book presents the way to revive the Islamic ideological and technological cultures through a critique of the two main causes for the decline and continued backwardness of Muslim cultures: Sufism; and takhsis, i e, reduction, limitation, restriction of Islamic law to only family laws, Islam to rituals and superficial aspects of the five pillars, exclusion of Islamic science, technology, economics, etc from Islamic epistemology and education; and other manifestations of takhsis.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

S WAQAR AHMED HUSAINI (PhD, Engineering-Economic Systems Planning, Stanford University, California), is the founder-President, Institute of Islamic Sciences, Technology, and Development and, since 1986, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University. In the Islamic and comparative contexts, he has taught civil and water resources engineering, environmental laws, engineering economics, history and philosophy of science, bio-medical ethics, etc. in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and USA.

Contents

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION: IMPLICATIONS FOR REVIVAL AND WORLD SUPRECACY OF THE ISLAMIC TWO CULTURES FOR UNIVERSAL COMMON GOOD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: FIRST EDITION

PREFACE: FIRST EDITION

CHAPTER 1
Introduction to Pre-Quranic and Islamic Science and Civilizations

CHAPTER 2
Islamic Thought in Development of Medieval Islamic Sciences and Technology: Quran and Some Disciplines

LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 3
Water: In the Quran, Sunnah, and History of Islamic Thought

CHAPTER 4
Water: An Interpretative History of Islamic Engineering and Development

CHAPTER 5
Energy: An Interpretative History of Islamic Thought, Engineering and Technology

CHAPTER 6
Causes of Decline of Medieval Islamic Science, Technology, and Life Support Systems, and Reviving their Contemporary Development

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX