Scientific enterprise in Islam

摘要

The question of whether or not science is compatible with Islam has been debated for centuries both within and without the Muslim world by western scholars. For those who see science mainly as a bundle of techniques for producing more exact measurements of natural phenomena, the conflict becomes vanishingly small. For those, on the other hand, who suspect that science is a new method of investigation, an enterprise that periodically overturns ancient wisdom and sacred truths, science is perceived as a subversive endeavor that must be reined in.