Science and Religion in Islam

This grant supported the establishment of a constructive engagement between science and religion from an Islamic perspective. An international research group of distinguished Muslim scholars focused on the nature of ultimate reality, as approached through diverse subtopics and across scientific and academic disciplines. The project included multimedia broadcasts of panel discussions for the French-speaking Muslim people of Europe and the Arab world. A conference titled "Science, Cultures, and the Future of Humanity" was held in Doha, Qatar, in May 2008 and was jointly organized by the Al Jazeera Center for Studies.

Grant Amount:

$1,670,169

Start Date:

November 2004

End Date:

October 2007

Grant ID:

11318

Adnène Benabdesselem
University of Paris 6 (Paris, France)

Mohamed Tahar Bensaada
Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles Ilya Prigogine (Brussels, Belgium)

Khalil Chamcham, Visiting Researcher
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Eric Geoffroy
University of Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France)
Hassan Ghaziri
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Nidhal Guessoum
American University of Sharjah (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

Abdelhaq Hamza
University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada)

Layla Khalifa, Research Associate
University of Paris 4 (Paris, France)

Karim Meziane, Research Scientist
University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada)

Jamal Mimouni, Director of Research
Mentouri University of Constantine (Constantine, Algeria)

Inès Safi, Research Associate
National Center for Scientific Research
University of Paris 11 (Paris, France)

Mohammed Taleb, Research Associate
Arab Transdisciplinary Network "Bayt al-Hikma" (Paris, France)