Author: Pervez Hoodbhoy
Pervez Hoodbhoy is chair and professor in the department of physics at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he has taught for thirty-four years.
The Quest for Rapproachment
The question I want to pose—perhaps as much to myself as to anyone else—is this: With well over a billion Muslims and extensive material resources, why is the Islamic world disengaged from science and the process of creating new knowledge? (I am here using the fifty-seven countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference [OIC] …