Why islam false

Moore, who was ousted twice from the Alabama Supreme Court -- the most recent instance for issuing an order prohibiting probate judges from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples --, maintained that his action didn't violate judicial ethics.

He also claimed the U. Supreme Court's ruling did not make gay marriage legal throughout the country. While speaking about the need to strengthen the military, Moore also said he was against allowing transgender people to serve. Moore, who is among the top tier of Republican candidates on the ballot for the Aug. Luther Strange. It is as if the problem were, to put it in plain terms, if Islam was responsible for the glory of medieval Islamic civilization and the emergence of hundreds of scientists who taught not only Muslims but also Europeans, then why is the same Islam not creating the same circumstances of scientific efflorescence today or, to put the second question negatively, why is Islam responsible for the decay and scientific backwardness that one sees today in the Islamic world.

This understanding and formulation of the problem are completely false. They are false because "Islam" was no more responsible for the achievements of the medieval scientists than it is responsible for the present decay. There are two basic reasons for this. First, there is no such thing as a monolithic, essential "Islam" which can be seen as the historical agent of these developments both in history and the present. This notion of "Islam" as an irreducible entity that can be precisely defined and taken to be the agent of all change in Muslim societies is basically an idealist orientalist notion that has no historical validity either in representing historical reality or in explaining history.

A kind of Islam at the time of the Prophet certainly did Use this link to get back to this page. Islam and science: a false statement of the problem. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.

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