 Alnoor Dhanani
Alnoor Dhanani is an intellectual historian specializing in the interaction
between science, theology and philosophy in historical and contemporary Islamic
civilizations. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Near
Eastern Languages and Cultures at Harvard University and is teaching at Brown
University and at Tufts University. His current research projects include
natural philosophy in Islamic civilization, in particular the responses of
practitioners of kalam to Avicenna's critique of atomism and the vacuum, how
Kalam atomists sought to explain continuity of personal identity following the
end of the world and resurrection of bodies, contemporary Muslim responses to
Big Bang cosmology, and contemporary Muslim discourses on the relation of
religion to science. He is the author of The Physical Theory of Kalam: Atoms,
Space, and Void in Basrian Mu'tazili Cosmology. He has also contributed to
Before and After Avicenna, The Muslim Almanac, The History of Science
and Religion in the Western World, A Historical Introduction to Science
and Religion, The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Science and Religion,
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, and the Encyclopedia of
Religion.
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