http://www.ijtema.net/2007/11/19/scimillenia/ A Congregation of Muslim Bloggers Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:56:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ijtema.net/2007/11/19/scimillenia/comment-page-1/#comment-1829 Manas Shaikh Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:34:14 +0000 http://www.ijtema.net/2007/11/19/scimillenia/#comment-1829 Thank you very much Bradley, for mentioning the book. And certainly you know better about him, than I do. :) Thank you very much Bradley, for mentioning the book. And certainly you know better about him, than I do.

]]> http://www.ijtema.net/2007/11/19/scimillenia/comment-page-1/#comment-1819 Bradley Steffens Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:08:13 +0000 http://www.ijtema.net/2007/11/19/scimillenia/#comment-1819 Thank you for your fine essay attention to the important role Islam played in the development of scientific thinking. In my book Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist, the world’s first biography of the eleventh-century Muslim scholar known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen, I point out that the development of the scientific method was a direct outgrowth of Ibn al-Haitham’s faith. He believed that human beings are flawed and only God is perfect. To discover the truth about nature, he reasoned, one had to eliminate human opinion and error and allow the universe to speak for itself. As a result of his deep skepticism toward human understanding, Ibn al-Haytham designed the first verifiable physical experiments to test hypotheses.

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