Modernity and the Muslim World

About the Book

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Modernity and the Muslim World consists of fourteen essays which describe the glorious period of Muslim science in the Middle Ages and its subsequent and rapid decline. Some of the causes of its decline are underlined. The intent is not to disparage religion, which seems to have held back the development of science in the Muslim world. It is rather to encourage open-mindedness and to promote the relinquishing of defensiveness in religion in which most of the Muslim world appears to indulge freely and without any reserve.

About the Author

Mohammad Akram Gill received his basic college education in Pakistan. He graduated from the Punjab University (Lahore College of Engineering and Technology), Lahore, in civil engineering in 1956. He obtained his DIC (postgraduate Diploma of Imperial College) and PhD in hydraulics from the University of London, UK, in 1970.

He has published his engineering research papers in several internationally refereed journals. He was honored by the American Society of Civil Engineering with the J.C. Stevens award in 1991.

His interests are broad and spilled over into the area of the histories of science and philosophy. He published a few articles at the Secular Website and wrote a number of articles on the decline of science in the Muslim world which led to the publication of Modernity and the Muslim World.