Confronting Stereotypes: The State of Science in the Islamic World
By Waleed Brinjikji
Published: February / March 2008 | Vol. 01 No. 02
The unfortunate reality in the Middle East and the rest of the Islamic World is that it is currently mired in a third world state with very little development of any kind, least of all in the realm of science. The fact of the matter is that scientific development in the Islamic world is limited and the only times that it is acknowledged in the international press is in reference to Iranian or Pakistani nuclear weapons programs or Iraq’s famous Chemical Ali.