by Salman Hameed
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What is Irtiqa?
Irtiqa is Salman Hameed's blog. A few years ago (before Facebook killed many of the blogs), it used to track stories of science & religion, especially those related to Muslim societies. That is still one of its foci, but now it dovetails more of Salman's interests including film, astronomy, science fiction, and science outreach in both Pakistan and the US.
Irtiqa literally means evolution in Urdu. But it does not imply only biological evolution. Instead, it is an all encompassing word used for evolution of the universe, biological evolution, and also for biological/human development. While it has created confusion in debates over biological evolution in South Asia, it provides a nice integrative name for this blog. For further information, contact Salman Hameed.
The blog banner is designed by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad. You can find all his creative endeavors at Orangie.
Salman Hameed
Salman is an astronomer and Associate Professor of Integrated Science & Humanities at Hampshire College, Massachusetts. Currently, he is working on understanding the rise of creationism in contemporary Islamic world and how Muslims view the relationship between science & religion. He is also working with historian Tracy Leavelle at Creighton University to analyze reconciliation efforts between astronomers and Native Hawaiians over telescopes on top of sacred Mauna Kea in Hawaii. He teaches “History and Philosophy of Science & Religion” with philosopher Laura Sizer, and “Science in the Islamic World”, both at Hampshire College. Salman and Laura Sizer are also responsible for the ongoing Hampshire College Lecture Series on Science & Religion, and you can find videos of all these lectures below. Contact information here.
LABELS
- Arab Spring
- art
- Astronomy
- Astronomy Pictures from Pakistan
- atheism
- beliefs of scientists
- Catholic Church and science
- creationism
- education
- education in muslim world
- ethics morality and science
- evolution
- faith and medicine
- film theater and television
- Friday Journal Club
- general
- history
- humor
- intelligent design
- Irtiqa Conversations
- Islam and Modernity
- islam and science
- Islamic Calendar
- islamic creationism
- Judaism and science
- media
- Muslims in Europe
- off topic
- Pakistan
- politics of science and religion
- posts by Nidhal Guessoum
- primates
- pseudoscience
- religion and environmentalism
- Religion and Health
- Religion and Technology
- Saturday Video
- science and Native religions
- science and religion books
- science fiction
- science in muslim world
- science of belief
- science of morality
- science religion and terrorism
- UFO religions
Blog Archive
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- Keep Creationism Away from Children - Bill Nye
- Paper for next Irtiqa Friday Journal Club
- Suspicious Urdu: Shameful profiling in NYC
- New images from Curiosity
- The Complex Landscape of Higher Education in Afgha...
- Saturday Video: R.I.P. Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)
- Friday Journal Club: Attitudes of Scottish Bioscie...
- Strife amongst Maulvis give astronomers a rare ope...
- Archaeology! Not a field for women in Iran.
- Upcoming Irtiqa Friday Journal Club
- Waiting to hit the bottom on Pakistan's blasphemy ...
- Ottomans in the Indian Ocean
- Pew Survey: Mahdi, Jesus, Devotional Dancing and S...
- Poem - "The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soun...
- Saturday Video: The New Ottomans
- Vigilantism and class warfare in The Dark Knight R...
- Friday Journal Club: "Science, Religion, and Society"
- NYT and CNN on racial profiling and Islamophobia i...
- Pew Survey: How does the sectarian divide looks ac...
- Sadakat Kadri's book on the origins of the Shariah...
- Disgraceful statement by A.Q.Khan about Ahmadis
- When you are hungry in space...
- Pew Survey: Importance of religion for Muslims and...
- Existentialism in Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Si...
- Martian surface from Curiosity
- An Underground Muslim sect - no really under the g...
- Saturday video: E.O.Wilson - Advice to Young Scien...
- Next Irtiqa Journal Club: Coyne on the problem of ...
- A Turkish miniature take on the movies
- Friday Journal Club: "Science Teachers' Views of S...
- Noah's flood and other delightful details in "Moon...
- Announcing Friday Irtiqa journal Club
- "Cosmos" among the "Books That Shaped America"
- Angels in cubicles?
- Curiosity from Mars Orbiter!
- How to think about the claim of a water-powered car?
- Mars Landing on Monday!
- Geopolitics and Olympic medals
- Another story of a woman astrophysicist from Pakistan
- In and out of religion
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