THE ETERNAL CHALLENGE WORKSHOP ON SCIENCE AND THE QURAN

Saturday, December 20th, 2014 - Workshops and Courses.

The Eternal Challenge
The Limits of Science and the Linguistic Miracle of the Qur’an

Imagine you’re at work, university or watching a documentary – you can’t help but feel that the Quran is being dismissed as irrational and incoherent: “The Quran is an old book full of myths”, “The Quran is inaccurate”, “The Quran contains mistakes”, “The Quran was written by a man”, “The Quran copied the Bible”, and “The Quran has no evidence for its claims”.
You cannot answer these questions and you’re not happy with what you find on the internet. So what do you do?
The Eternal Challenge: The Limits of Science and the Linguistic Miracle of the Quran is a one day Islamic thought workshop designed to empower you with the right tools and concepts to successfully articulate the linguistic miracle of the Quran and to be able to reconcile and understand revelation in our age of science.
• Is science the only way to truth?
• How do we understand science and revelation?
• What is a miracle?
• What is the intellectual challenge of the Quran?
• How do we respond to academic, orientalist and popular objections?
• What makes the Quran a linguistic miracle?
• What are the philosophical implications?
• How do we articulate the miracle to non-Arabs?
• What was the impact of the Quran?
• How does the Quran reveal lost knowledge?
• What is the Quran’s unique structure?
• How is the Quran mathematically coherent?
• How do we reflect on the Quran?
• How do we reconcile science and the Quran?
In summary, the Eternal Challenge is an interactive workshop giving you the skills to articulate a positive case for the Quran in an age of science & reason.
Please note, for all those who attended this workshop before, it has been improved with new content and arguments.

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MANCHESTER, UK

Sunday 25th January 2015 – 09:00 to 19:00 (GMT)
University of Salford
The Crescent
M5 4WT
Salford
United Kingdom

LONDON, UK

Saturday 31st January 2015 – 09:00 to 19:00 (GMT)
Blizard Building,
Queen Mary University of London
4 Newark Street
E1 2AT
London

This one day academic research workshop will look at:

1. The Scientific method and the Philosophy of Science
2. What is a Miracle?
3. The Quran Defined
4. The Challenge of the Quran
5. The Unique Structure, Style and Content of the Qur’an
6. Explaining the Quran’s Linguistic Miracle to a non-Arab
7. The Qurans impact on Society
8. Quranic Reflections & A New Approach in Explain Natural Phenomena
9. Key Academic and Popular Contentions

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