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Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 daysAuthor: S Waqar Ahmed HusainiPublisher: Goodword BooksYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 252ISBN/UPC (if avail able): 8178980223 DescriptionIslamic Thought in the Rise and Supremacy of Islamic Technological Culture: Water Resources and Energy, brings out the role of Islamic ideological culture in the birth, rise, and world supremacy of Islamic technological culture during the First to Eighth AH (Seventh to fourteenth AD) centuries. Examples are given from the history of water resources and energy. Islamic ideology refers to implications for the two cultures of the Quranic concept of God and prophethood; the Kitab al-Kharaj books on the Traditions of Prophet Muhammad; Islamic law, esp land tenure and environmental laws; economics; politics and administration; etc.The primary beneficiaries of these Islamic cultures during the early centuries, when Muslims were a minority in the Islamic world-states, were the non-Muslim majorities; the later, therefore, embraced Islam first gradually and later on rapidly. The book presents the way to revive the Islamic ideological and technological cultures through a critique of the two main causes for the decline and continued backwardness of Muslim cultures: Sufism; and takhsis, i e, reduction, limitation, restriction of Islamic law to only family laws, Islam to rituals and superficial aspects of the five pillars, exclusion of Islamic science, technology, economics, etc from Islamic epistemology and education; and other manifestations of takhsis.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:S WAQAR AHMED HUSAINI (PhD, Engineering-Economic Systems Planning, Stanford University, California), is the founder-President, Institute of Islamic Sciences, Technology, and Development and, since 1986, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University. In the Islamic and comparative contexts, he has taught civil and water resources engineering, environmental laws, engineering economics, history and philosophy of science, bio-medical ethics, etc. in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and USA.ContentsPREFACE TO SECOND EDITION: IMPLICATIONS FOR REVIVAL AND WORLD SUPRECACY OF THE ISLAMIC TWO CULTURES FOR UNIVERSAL COMMON GOODACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: FIRST EDITIONPREFACE: FIRST EDITIONCHAPTER 1Introduction to Pre-Quranic and Islamic Science and CivilizationsCHAPTER 2Islamic Thought in Development of Medieval Islamic Sciences and Technology: Quran and Some DisciplinesLIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMSCHAPTER 3Water: In the Quran, Sunnah, and History of Islamic ThoughtCHAPTER 4Water: An Interpretative History of Islamic Engineering and DevelopmentCHAPTER 5Energy: An Interpretative History of Islamic Thought, Engineering and TechnologyCHAPTER 6Causes of Decline of Medieval Islamic Science, Technology, and Life Support Systems, and Reviving their Contemporary DevelopmentBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX Show more