Eighth to the Sixteenth Century - Rashid Islamic Center

Afterword: Is Islamic Science Possible? • 233the centuries-old tradition of Islamic science and the whole processwill generate enough interest, momentum, and visible results thatwould stand out as viable alternatives to the results and products ofprofane science and technology that now dominate human existencein all parts of the world. Once the benefits of Islamic science becomeapparent, there will be sufficient and compulsive reasons for moreand more scientists to join this effort.Thus reclaiming its lost position, the reemerging tradition ofIslamic science would prove, by its sheer existence, that those whohave been its proponents in the lean years were not the inheritorsof wind but harbingers of a science immensely more beneficial thanthe one which has brought humanity and the planet to its presentabysmal state. In the presence of this conclusive proof of the viabilityand rigorous application of the Islamic vision of the natural world,all objections against the notion of Islamic science would be laid torest forever.z