The Importance Of Islamic Science In Islam

We live in a world where science and technology are advancing at every minute of every day. Pervez Hoodbhoy states “Science is like a building always in use but in perpetual repair, continuously growing in size and adding to itself new extensions and sections” (Hoodbhoy 11). Our world has been dramatically transformed by scientific advancements that were achieved in Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. These scientific revolutions began with Arabic culture in Islam during the Islamic Golden Age.

During this time, Islamic Science transformed scientific knowledge when Muslims acquired Greek written works and began their study and translation in Arabic to later create the foundation of a newer, more knowledgeable world. Through the Islamic perspective, science is the study of nature and the concept of the “oneness” of God. Muslim scientists turn to the Qur’an, which is religious Islamic text, as inspiration. The Muslims and their “so-called Islamic sciences were those devoted to the study of the Qur’an, the traditions of the Prophet, legal knowledge, theology, poetry, and the Arabic language” (52 Huff). The Qur’an can be viewed as the primary source that led the path to their developing knowledge. Muẓaffar Iqbal notes that this belief, “ which revolves around the Qur-anic concept of life, death, resurrection, prophet hood and the moral response of the two sentient beings to its message, provided the first conceptual framework for the Islamic tradition of learning” (Iqbal 1). The Qur’an was reflected as a God of direction and support of civilization.

In the expression of arts, Hadith, or religion tradition, Muslims were exhilarated to revamp the word of Allah through calligraphy and additional expressio...

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...m to new information that they pursued into different scientific theories and advances. Muslims created a structural frame, by following their devotion to the Qur’an, which other civilizations transformed into new ideas. With the texts of classical authors such as Ptolemy, Aristotle, and Copernicus, modern science began to find its shape. Science is still advancing every single day, and we can acknowledge the Muslims for their achievements. As we look at our IPhones and question how science and technology has transformed the world, we can remember that it all began in the Arab world, expanding to the Byzantine Empire, and all the way to Europe. As some people view the Middle Ages as being a dark period, we can confirm that it definitely was not dark in the Islamic Civilization, it was their light, and their chance to shine it for the rest of the world to discover.