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In the Shadows of Glories Past - Jihad for Modern Science in Muslim Societies, 1850 to the Arab Spring (Paperback)
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In the Shadows of Glories Past - Jihad for Modern Science in Muslim Societies, 1850 to the Arab Spring (Paperback)
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The title of this volume implies two things: the greatness of the
scientific tradition that Muslims had lost, and the power of the
West, in whose threatening shadow reformers now labored to
modernize in order to defend themselves against those very powers
they were taking as models. Copernicus and Darwin were the names
that dominated the debate on science, whose arguments and rebuttals
were published mainly in the religious and secular journals in
Cairo and Beirut from the 1870s. Analysis and interpretation of
this literature shows the hope that Arab reformers had of
duplicating the Japanese success, followed by the despair when
success was denied. A cultural malaise festered from generations of
despair, defeat and foreign occupation, and this feeling
transmogrified after 1967 to a psychosis in a significant number of
secular writers, educators and religious reformers. The great
debate on assimilating science was turned inward where defensive
mechanisms of denial spun out perversions of science: the Quran
becoming a thesaurus of science; and a more extreme derivative of
that, something called "Islamic Science," arising as an alternate
science that was to be in harmony with the Quran, Shari'a and
Muslim belief. This volume reveals the undermining effect of
European imperialism on western-oriented religious reformers and
secular intellectuals, for whom science and political reform went
together, and concludes with a chapter on the state of science in
contemporary Muslim societies and the efforts to institutionalize
science (before the upheavals of 2011) so as to bring to life an
authentic and indigenous culture that would sustain scientific
study and research as autonomous pursuits.
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