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Criticizing Muslim Thinkers' Views on Religion and Development … A. Ali et al (113
Research Findings Unlike some Western
Dealing with science in theorists, including Goldzihar
Islamic society has always who said that there was no
received special attention. scientific activity in Islam. He
This article shows that the explicitly stated that science
production and expansion of came to the Islamic world
science is dependent on through the translation of
authentic Islamic sources i.e. Western texts, but it was not
The Qur'an, Sunnah, and welcomed and returned to
Hadiths, while Islam does not Europe again, causing progress
conflict with science. Other and scientific revolution in
nations have influenced their Europe. (Iqbal, 2019)
progress and benefited from But we should consider that
the scientific resources of Muslims were not just users,
other civilizations. However, rather they produced science
Muslims have produced science and knowledge themselves
under the shadow of Islam and and created a new civilization,
its teachings, so that over even Westerners in scientific
several centuries, various productions from tradition
sciences such as mathematics, have used Islamic sciences.
astronomy, chemistry, physics, In this case, Muẓaffar
medicine, and so on have ‘Iqbāl has stated in his works
made significant progress. By that what we have from
encouraging and inciting historical texts and scientific
Muslims to study science, Islam sources has proven that Muslims
has provided the basis for their have always studied scientific
scientific development and topics, especially mathematics,
has allowed the use of other astronomy, and philosophy. It
people's scientific progress. has been proven that in Islamic
Islam asks Muslims not to be civilization, the production of
consumers of other people's science was a definite matter,
scientific advances, but to be and this shows that Islamic
producers of science themselves. culture could create a science
