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Islam and Science by Pervez Hoodbhoy

darkpassenger's review

5.0

A must read book to understand why Science in Muslim countries has not been able to flourish. Dr Pervaiz Hoodbhoy analyses the various historical personalities and factors which lead to absolute condemnation of Islamic golden age scientists. I particularly loved the end of the book where he shares his experience of wannabe 'scientists' presenting the most absurd papers on 'Islamic science' in the late 80's Islamic science conference in Islamabad. The sad part is that those BS concepts are still prevalent in common household conversations after 3 damn decades. It shows that he was absolutely right in being worried at this clownish attempt to redefine science and shows how damaging it has been for the future generations. If only more people could in Pakistan could think like the professor....