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08/06/2007 | Expert
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/30683
A way forward for Islamic science
Muslim countries once led the world in scientific research. Iranian physicist Reza Mansouri tells Edwin Cartlidge why they now lag so far behind and what they can do about it
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Not one of the world's top 200 universities, according to the Times Higher Education Supplement, is located in a Muslim country, despite the fact that together these countries contain more than a fifth of the world's population.
Reza Mansouri, a cosmologist at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, believes this situation is a "catastrophe". Mansouri is attempting to put his own country on the scientific map by stimulating exchanges between Iranian and Western scientists, and pressing the government for greater support. As a former deputy science minister of Iran who has also carried out research in Western universities, he is certainly well qualified to do this. But Mansouri thinks it will take at least 50 years for the country to fully embrace the scientific research process and accept such research as essential for the country's economic development. The reason for such an apparently bleak forecast: what he sees as the failure of the Muslim mind to distinguish between science and theology
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A way forward for Islamic science
Muslim countries once led the world in scientific research. Iranian physicist Reza Mansouri tells Edwin Cartlidge why they now lag so far behind and what they can do about it
......
Not one of the world's top 200 universities, according to the Times Higher Education Supplement, is located in a Muslim country, despite the fact that together these countries contain more than a fifth of the world's population.
Reza Mansouri, a cosmologist at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, believes this situation is a "catastrophe". Mansouri is attempting to put his own country on the scientific map by stimulating exchanges between Iranian and Western scientists, and pressing the government for greater support. As a former deputy science minister of Iran who has also carried out research in Western universities, he is certainly well qualified to do this. But Mansouri thinks it will take at least 50 years for the country to fully embrace the scientific research process and accept such research as essential for the country's economic development. The reason for such an apparently bleak forecast: what he sees as the failure of the Muslim mind to distinguish between science and theology
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