God, Nature And The Cause Second Edition

Author:  Basil Altaie
Publisher: Baytul Hikma
ISBN: 9789672091424
Weight: 458 gsm
Pages: 325 pp
Year: 2025
Price: RM

THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONFLICT of religion and science is one of the most compelling and controversial issues today., Many intellectuals, scholars and philosophers from the West representing Christian and Jewish philosophical traditions have addressed this burning question but little has been heard from their counterparts in the Muslim tradition, What do Muslims have to say on the subject, and what is the relationship between modern scientific developments and Muslim belief? What is the Islamic tradition of Kalam, and does it have anything to contribute to modern science and philosophy? These are some of the critical questions addressed by Basil Altaic in his latest book God, Nature, and the Cause: Essays on Islam and Science.

Altaie, physicist and philosopher rooted in classical Islamic theology, argues that the Kalam tradition Islam's deepest philosophical expression- provides a number of insights that can create a greater understanding of modern physics, and reconcile the apparent clash between science and religion. In this riveting set of essays, Altaie takes us from the early circles of Mutazili and Ash'ari Kalam, to the universities of Western Europe, in a critical survey that engages thinkers like Al-Ash 'ari, Al-Ghazali, Ibn Sīna, Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Pierre Laplace, Erwin Schrödinger, and others. This is an unprecedented and fascinating study, available in a second enlarged edition.

This book provides an important resource for practitioners of philosophy, science, and theology, and offers an invaluable and timely contribution on Islam and its interaction with modern science.

DR. BASIL ALTAE is Visiting Emeritus Professor of Quantum Cosmology at the university of Leeds, U.K. He obtained his Ph.D. from Manchester University and since then he worked on research problems in Quantum Cosmology Black Holes, Dark Matter. He published about more than 50 papers in peer reviewed journals. Over the last 40 years he has taught many courses n physics at the undergraduate and post- graduate levels. These include: Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics. Statistical Mechanics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics, Scientific Thinking, Mathematical Physics and Philosophy of Science. He has published twelve books in Arabic and four in English, mostly in science and in science and religion.