How can science and the modern scientific approach be evaluated especially from Islam viewpoint?
For many years, swayed by Western dominion over their lands, a dominion attributed to superior science and technology, some Muslim intellectuals accused Islam itself as the cause of the backwardness of Muslim peoples. Having forgotten the eleven centuries or more of Islamic supremacy, they thought and wrote as if the history of Islam had only begun in the eighteenth century. Further, they made the deplorable mistake of identifying the relationship between science and religion in general in the specific terms of the relationship between science and Christianity. They did not bother to make even a superficial study of Islam and its long history. In contrast to this, some other contemporary Muslim intellectuals who, after seeing the disastersatomic bombs, mass murders, environmental pollution, loss of all moral and spiritual values, the delirium which modern man suffers, and so onscience and technology have brought to mankind and the shortcomings and mistakes of the purely scientific appr
