Science and Tecnique
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Scientific inventions and the development of technique are fields where the civilizations have always found a great interest in cooperating, as shown by the history of the relationships between the West and the Islamic world. Even if today the latter is not in the van, there was a time when it was there that the new frontiers of technique run. In recent years, several websites were opened in order to remind the richness of intercultural exchanges in the field of scienze and technique.
1001 Inventions
A UK based educational project that reveals the rich heritage that the Muslim community share with other communities in the UK and Europe. 1001 Inventions is a non-religious and non-political project seeking to allow the positive aspects of progress in science and technology to act as a bridge in understanding the interdependence of communities throughout human history. A way to experience a thousand years of missing history, to learn about a lost age of Muslim innovation and invention, to discover the Muslim origins of many Western discoveries.
Interdisciplines.org
Interdisciplines is a project aimed at enhancing interdisciplinary research and exchanges in the humanities. The site allows for the organization of interdisciplinary conferences (like “Art and Cognition”, “Issues in coevolution of language and theory of mind” and “Understanding Suicide Terrorism”). Each conference and seminar is run by a specific team and sponsored by a different grant. Projects are selected by a scientific committee and supervised by Gloria Origgi. The overall project has been sponsored by the C.N.R.S.,France.
Muslim Heritage
MuslimHeritage.com, a unique online Education Community, that brings together Muslims and Non-Muslims seeking to advance Civilisation through the study of Muslim Heritage. Pioneered by the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation (FSTC Limited) in the UK, it is an ambitious project that aims to raise global awareness on the importance and relevance of Muslim Heritage and its mostly unaccounted contribution to current world civilisation. A vast repository of knowledge and historical data on the critical role of the Muslim contribution to science, technology and world civilisation is available in library archives throughout the world. This knowledge if comprehensively extracted, documented and popularised, would provide stronger intellectual foundations for Muslims to begin to reassert their identity as major pioneers of human civilisation. Through the advancement in Internet technologies, FSTC has the facility to allow global access to this new Muslim heritage database, including source materials, 3-D recreated models of Muslim technology and an online community of scholars and contributors. In English.
20 Nov 2006
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