Brochure #2 of 3
In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful
IISTD/Institute of Islamic Sciences, Technology, and Development (USA)
TOWARDS
DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIC SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY:
A Guide to Universities in USA for Studies and Research in
the Western and Islamic Philosophy,
History, and Sociology of Science and Technology, including Medicine and
Health Sciences ( Such Institutions Have Been Utilized, But Should be More
Intensively,
for Studies & Research in Islamic Sciences, and Similar Ones Established in
Colleges and
Universities in Muslim-Majority and Other Muslim-Minority Countries )
By: Prof. S. Waqar Ahmed Husaini
Double Major: A
Secularized Discipline, and its
Discipline-Oriented Islamic Study
The Institute of Islamic Sciences, Technology, and Development has been
established with the conviction that the development and application of Islamic
natural sciences and technology ( ST ), and Islamic social sciences and
humanities, are an Islamic duty, a pragmatic necessity for Muslims, and a dire
need for the welfare of mankind. Muslims have been denying in recent centuries
that science and technology have an Islamic validity, legitimacy, and
obligatoriness. They have also rejected naturalization of secularized knowledge,
like the Western and Marxist, including ST, because their world-views conflict
with those of Islamic ideological and technological cultures; secularism is
kufr, the "rejection" of Islam. Therefore, Muslims have been incapable in
recent centuries of protecting and promoting their din/way of life or
Islam, `aql/rational systems, life/hayaat, posterity/nasal,
wealth/maal, and dignity/'ird. Repeatedly failed efforts at
secularization only perpetuate Muslim self-contradictions, mediocrity,
decadence, weakness, xenophobia and humiliations. Muslim backwardness is against
the interests of mankind and the environment; it is a threat to national,
regional and international peace and security. Therefore, Muslims have the duty
and responsibility to recreate and develop the modern Islamic ideological and
technological cultures, as in the earlier centuries from the First-Tenth
A.H./Seventh-Sixteenth centuries A.D. Students must pursue "discipline-oriented
Islamic studies" in the secularized colleges and universities of U.S.A., and
in all other countries too, through their formal or informal education
systems.
This has been explained in the IISTD brochure:
TOWARDS ISLAMIZATION OF STUDIES AND RESEARCH IN
N. AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS
The basic idea is that students should have one of their two "double Majors", or a Minor, in "integrated Islamic studies" so that they study any discipline from the viewpoints of both U.S. secularism and Islamic thought. The U.S. environment permits and promotes freedom of thought, ethnicity, diversity, and multi-culturalism. The flexible structure also gives students ideological freedom in the choice of General Education, Elective and Independent Study courses; and in writing term papers, theses, and dissertations.
The 60 universities given below with GRADUATE PROGRAMS, and those with Departments or Centers for Islamic, Middle East or Near Eastern Studies, have perhaps the best potential for Islamization of studies and research, and careers later on. The First Major may be one of the natural or applied sciences, engineering, or medicine; the Second Major or Minor must be the same specialization through "discipline-oriented Islamic Studies". Examples of the latter, like the secular EVIST studies listed below, are basic studies in Islamic philosophy, history, and sociology of science and technology; and their application through courses and Programs, and careers, in Islamic-EVIST: Islamic Ethics and Values in Science and Technology.
UNIVERSITIES IN USA WITH
GRADUATE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN THE PHILOSOPHY, HlSTORY, AND SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY:
WESTERN ( and ISLAMIC )
The following universities have such undergraduate studies too; and ALL institutions of higher education, even 2-year colleges, offer courses in such and similar subject-areas that students can adopt or adapt to pursue General and Specialized discipline-oriented Islamic sciences; students and research scholars have done this, but need to pursue this more intensively. Interested students and scholars, from USA or other countries, should write DIRECTLY to these and others for information. ( This List needs to be updated ).
A) U.S. Universities with specialized Graduate Programs ( those with some specialization in medical and health sciences also are marked*):
1. History Dept, Auburn Univ, Auburn, Alabama 36830
2. History Dept, Univ of Calif.-Berkeley, CA 94720
3) Program in History & Philosophy of Science, Philosophy Dept, Univ of Calif-Davis,
Davis, CA 95616
4. History Dept, Univ of California-Los Angeles, CA 90024
5. Program in History of Science & Technology, Hist. Dept, Univ of
California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
6. Center for Inter-disciplinary Science, San Francisco State Univ, San
Francisco, CA 94132
7. * (a) Program in Values, Technology, Science & Society (b) Program in History
of Science, Hist Dept, Stanford Univ, CA 94305
8. History of Science, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520
9. * Hagley Program in Hist of Industrial America, Hist Dept, Univ of
Delaware, Newark, DE 19711
10. Program in History of Science & Technology, Hist Dept, Univ of Florida, Gainsville,
FL 32611
11. History & Philosophy Depts, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306
12. Program in Technology & Science Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA 30332
13. * Committee on Conceptual Foundations of Science, Univ of Chicago, Chicago,
IL 60637
14. Graduate Program in Hist, Philosophy & Sociology of Science, Univ of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
15. * Dept of Hist and Philosophy of Science, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN
47401
16. * Program in Hist and Philosophy of Science, Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
IN 46556
17. * Program in Hist of Technology & Science, Hist Dept., Iowa State Univ, Ames,
Iowa 50011
18.* History of Science and Medicine Program, Hist Dept, Univ of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
19. Hist Dept, Kansas State Univ/Manhattan, KS 66506
20.* History of Medicine and Science Committee, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
40506
21. Hist of Science Dept, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
22.* Comm. on History & Philosophy of Science, Univ of Maryland-College Park,
College Park, MD 20742
23 * Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215
24.* Dept of Hist of Science, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138
25.* Program in Science, Technology & Society, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
26.* Hist Dept, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
27. Science & Technology Studies Program, Briggs School, Michigan State Univ, East
Lansing, MI 48824
28. Program in Science, Technology & Society, Michigan Technology Univ,
Houghton, MI 49931
29. Program in History of Science & Technology, School of Physics & Astronomy,
Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
30. Program in the History & Philosophy of Science, Montana State
Univ., Bozeman, Montana 59717
31.* Hist & Theory of Psychology Program, Psychology Dept, Univ of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
32.* Program in Hist of Science, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544
33.* Program in Hist of Technology, Medicine & Science, Rutgers State Univ, New
Brunswick, NJ 08903
34.* Specialization in Hist of Science, Graduate Center, City Univ of New
York, New York, NY 10036
35. Hist Dept, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853
36. Program in Hist of Science & Technology, Polytechnic Institute of New York,
Brooklyn, NY 11201
37.* Dept of Science & Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, New York 12180
38.* Hist of Science, Technology & Medicine Program, State Univ of New York
at Stony Brook, NY 11794
39.* Duke-UNC Program in Hist of Science, Medicine & Technology, Duke Univ,
Durham, N. Carolina 27706
40.* Duke-UNC Program in Hist of Science, Medicine & Technology, Hist Dept, Univ
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
41.* Program in Hist of Science & Technology, Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland,
Ohio 44106
42. Botany Dept, Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210
43.* Hist Dept, Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210
44. Hist of Science Dept, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019
45.* Dept of Hist & Sociology of Science, Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
19104
46.* Dept of Hist & Philosophy of Science, Univ of Pittsburgh, PA 15260
47. Dept of Hist of Mathematics, Brown Univ, Providence, R1 02912
48.* Hist Dept, Univ of Houston, Houston, TX 77004
49 * Hist Dept, Univ of Texas at Austin, TX 78712
50.* Graduate Program, Center for Study of Science in Society, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061
51.* Program in Hist of Science, Technology & Medicine; Hist Dept; and
Biomedical Hist Dept; Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
52. Program in Hist of Science & Tech., West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV 26506
53.* Dept of Hist of Science, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
B. U.S. Graduate Programs in Medical and Health
Sciences:
1. Division of Medical History, Anatomy Dept, School of Medicine, Univ of
California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024
2. Dept. of Hist & Philosophy of Health Sciences, Univ of California-San
Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143
3. Section of Hist of Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT
06510
4. Morris Fishbein Center for Hist of Science and Medicine, Univ of
Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
5. Institute of Hist of Medicine, John Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21205
6. Section of Medical Hist, Uniformed Services Univ of the Health
Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814
7. Hist of Medicine Dept, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
8. Hist of Medicine Dept, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
9. Hist of Pharmacy Program, School of Pharmacy, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
53706
SOURCE:
Guide to the History of Science, 1986: A Triennial Publication of the
History of Science Society
(HSS/History of Science Society, Dept of Hist & Sociology of Science, Univ of
Pennsylvania; Philadelphia PA 19104; 1987 ). The Guide gives information from
many countries on: (1) Graduate Studies (2) Research Centers (3) Directory of
over 3000 HSS Members, their subject & countries of interest; only 20 Muslims
were members. MANY non-Muslim professors teach & do research in Islamic science
and technology. ( See recent issues of the Guide )
Other sources to develop Islamic science & technology:
1) 1987 Directory: Graduate & Undergraduate
Programs_and Courses in Middle East Studies in United States,_Canada, and Abroad
( Middle East Assn of N._America, Inc., Dept of Oriental Studies, Univ of
Arizona, Tucson, AR 85721 ). See its current Directory.
2) Conference on the State of Science, Technology and Society Programs
in Western Europe, North America, and Australia, 1987. ( Dept of Social
Science & Policy Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609 )
3) EVlST Resource Directory: A directory of programs and courses in
the field of Ethics and Values in Science and_Technology, 1978. ( Amer
Association for Advancement of Science, 1776 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC
20036 )
4) Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Islamic Science: An Annotated Bibliography;
3v ( Lahore, Pakistan: Suhail Academy, 1985 )
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IISTD Board of Directors,
February 2003
Prof. S. Waqar Ahmed Husaini, Chairman; and IlSTD President
( Visiting Scholar, 1986-continued, Stanford University, CA )
Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed, Member
( General Secretary, Islamic Society of North America, Plainfield, IN )
Dr. Hashim M. Mahdi
( Director, Islamic World League, Makkah, Saudi Arabia )
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Members, Council of
Advisors and Patrons, February 2003
Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ( University Professor of Islamic Studies,
George Washington University, Washington, D.C. )
Dr. Taha Jabir al-Alwani, ( President, School of Islamic & Social Sciences,
Leesburg, VA )
Prof. Abdulla Omar Naseef ( President, Islamic World Congress, Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia )
Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Awadi, Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences, Kuwait
Imam Warith Deen Muhammad, Mosque Project, Chicago,
IL International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, VA
Islamic Society of North America, Plainfield, IN
Islamic Circle of North America, New York, NY
World Assembly of Muslim Youth, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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