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The rising clergisation of Islamic thought

A few days ago, I wrote a short Facebook post: "Thank God science remained beyond the reach of the religious class, otherwise they would have done to it what they did to religion." I knew the ...
Blue whales are the largest animals to ever exist on Earth - even bigger than the biggest dinosaurs. This video explores how these massive creatures survive by feeding almost entirely on tiny krill, ...
KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 (Bernama) -- The tradition of Islamic civilisation has shown that religion and science can go hand in hand in the advancement of knowledge, says Her Majesty Raja Zarith Sofiah, ...
Galactic filaments are the largest known structures in the universe — vast strands of galaxies and dark matter stretching across unimaginable distances. They form what scientists call the cosmic web, ...
In the early 17th century, during the golden age of the Mughal Empire, two engineering brothers in present-day Pakistan created a prodigious brass astrolabe for a powerful nobleman. More than 400 ...
Bowing to Arab pressure, Britain’s Ramsay McDonald government issued the infamous White Paper, limiting Jewish immigration to ...
Western governments once thought the Muslim Brotherhood a firewall against jihadism, although it was one of its principal ...
A London auction has put the world's largest astrolabe in the spotlight, tracing its roots from ancient Greece to the royal ...
A landmark new account of the 1979 revolution provides much needed context for current events ...
The sanctity and security of Al-Aqsa is once again under threat, as it was during the lifetime of the great scholar ...
A haphazard grouping of recent cases emerged from what one paranormal investigator describes as “mystery-mongering data mining.” It also made for ideal fodder for the president and our leading media ...
Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi, in a message, remembers the renowned 11th-century Iranian ...