Sarfraz Manzoor finds Ziauddin Sardar’s latest offering on British Asian popular culture is “only fitfully successful”.
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Ziauddin Sardar tackles the question of “Islamic” Science in his latest column. The comments are equally illuminating. They illustrate some of the points that Sardar is trying to make.
Guessoum, who is about to publish a book on ijaz literature, says that most works on scientific miracles follow a set pattern. They start with a verse of the Quran and look for concordance between scientific results and Quranic statements. For example, one would start from the verse “So verily I swear by the stars that run and hide . . .” (81:15-16) and quickly declare that it refers to black holes, or take the verse “[I swear by] the Moon in her fullness; that ye shall journey on from stage to stage” (84:18-19) and decide it refers to space travel. And so on. “What is meant to be allegorical and poetic is transformed into products of science,” Guessoum says.
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Ziauddin Sardar argues against the creation of a Muslim Church of England.
