In Islam, is there a difference between science & religion?
The scientific tradition before the 16th century had come into existence from the same world view from which the religious tradition had come into existence. It was rooted deeply in the same sources from which the religious world view comes. Therefore, there was no such thing as Islam and science. And we find no one in the Islamic intellectual traditions before the 16th century writing about Islam and science. The connection that construes these two entities as two separate entities, science and religion, did not exist. They grew out of the same thing. They came out of the same root. They came out of the same sources. They came out of the same world view. Therefore, they did not construe the study of the natural world as a separate entity.
