WILL THE fall of the Taliban mean anything for the hold of fundamentalism on
science in the Muslim world? After all, fundamentalism and science are strange
bedfellows, as we’ve seen in the US with Creationism. And if it does, will there
be hopeful answers this time to the questions I asked twenty years ago in these
pages—can Muslim scientists pick up the threads that were dropped 400
years ago?
Then and now, everyone in the Muslim world agrees that an essential component
of any cultural revival is the recovery of the spirit and values of Islamic
science. Muslim scholars…
