Book Review: Ahmad Dallal: Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History
Divided into four chapters (“Beginnings and Beyond”; “Science and Philosophy”; “Science and Religion”; and “In the Shadow of Modernity”), and hailed by Yale’s Dimitri Gutas as the “first serious treatment of the whole subject, superseding all earlier, partial, incompetent and, for the most part, biased (through ignorance) works” (book jacket), Ahmad Dallal’s Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History attempts to “situate the Islamic culture of science in relation to social and cultural trends in Muslim societies” (p. xi). Based on the author’s Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University in February 2008, the book demonstrates the author’s passionate and lifelong involvement with the topic of the relationship between religious and scientific knowledge.
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Muzaffar Iqbal
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