Osman Bakar - Qur'anic Picture of the Universe: The Scriptural Foundation of Islamic Cosmology

Abstract

Since the publication of Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s pioneering work on traditional Islamic cosmology, entitled An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines (1964), there has not been a major contribution in English on the same subject and from the same point of view until this latest book by Osman Bakar, entitled Qur’anic Pictures of the Universe: The Scriptural Foundation of Islamic Cosmology. As a leading authority on the philosophy of science, Dr Bakar has already written a great deal on Islamic cosmology, but never in such an extensive and meticulous study as this.