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This page is about the scholar Muzaffar Iqbal. For other people named Iqbal, see Iqbal

Muzaffar Iqbal (1954 in Lahore
Lahore

is the capital of the Pakistani Subdivisions of Pakistan of Punjab and is the List of most populated metropolitan areas in Pakistan city in Pakistan after Karachi....
, Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
) (Urdu:???? ?????), is the founding president of the Center for Islam and Science, located in Canada and an author. In 2003, the Center started an international journal of Islamic perspectives on science, Islam and Science
Islam and science

The relationship between science and Islam is a matter of controversy. In the Muslim world, many believe that modern science was first developed in the Muslim world rather than in Europe and Western world countries, that "all the wealth of knowledge in the world has actually emanated from Islamic Golden Age," and what people call "the scienti...
 (http://www.cis-ca.org/journal), with Dr. Iqbal being its founder-editor.






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This page is about the scholar Muzaffar Iqbal. For other people named Iqbal, see Iqbal

Muzaffar Iqbal (1954 in Lahore
Lahore

is the capital of the Pakistani Subdivisions of Pakistan of Punjab and is the List of most populated metropolitan areas in Pakistan city in Pakistan after Karachi....
, Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
) (Urdu:???? ?????), is the founding president of the Center for Islam and Science, located in Canada and an author. In 2003, the Center started an international journal of Islamic perspectives on science, Islam and Science
Islam and science

The relationship between science and Islam is a matter of controversy. In the Muslim world, many believe that modern science was first developed in the Muslim world rather than in Europe and Western world countries, that "all the wealth of knowledge in the world has actually emanated from Islamic Golden Age," and what people call "the scienti...
 (http://www.cis-ca.org/journal), with Dr. Iqbal being its founder-editor. Iqbal is an outspoken advocate of intelligent design
Intelligent design

Intelligent design is the term used for the assertion that "certain features of the universe and of life are best explained by an intelligent causality, not an undirected process such as natural selection." It is a modern form of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God that avoids specifying the nature or identity of th...
 and a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design
International Society for Complexity, Information and Design

The International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design was a non-profit professional society that promoted intelligent design.and rejected evolution....
.

Biography

Iqbal was born in Lahore
Lahore

is the capital of the Pakistani Subdivisions of Pakistan of Punjab and is the List of most populated metropolitan areas in Pakistan city in Pakistan after Karachi....
, Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
 in 1954. He graduated from the University of the Punjab
University of the Punjab

The University of the Punjab , colloquially known as Punjab University, is located in Lahore, Punjab , Pakistan. The University of the Punjab was formally established with the convening of the first meeting of its Senate on October 14, 1882 at Shimla....
, Lahore in 1976. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan is a coeducational public university research university located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, founded over 100 years ago in 1907....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 in 1983, but thereafter worked only briefly as a chemist and eventually quit the field to pursue devote himself to literature, history
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
, philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
 and religion. He taught Urdu
Urdu

Urdu is a Central_Indo-Aryan_languages#Central_Zone_.28Madhya_or_Hindi.29 Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-Iranian languages, belonging to the Indo-European languages family of languages....
 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984). In 1990, he moved back to Pakistan where he first worked at the Organization of the Islamic Conference
Organization of the Islamic Conference

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the United Nations. It groups 57 member states, from the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Caucasus, Balkans, Southeast Asia, South Asia and South America....
 (OIC) Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH
COMSTECH

COMSTECH is an abbreviation for the OIC's Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation for the promotion and cooperation of science and technology activities among the OIC member states....
) and then at the Pakistan Academy of Sciences
Pakistan Academy of Sciences

Pakistan Academy of Sciences was established in 1953. It is a non-governmental and non-political think tank of distinguished scientists in Pakistan, working for the promotion of science and its applications for the general welfare of humanity....
. At COMSTECH
COMSTECH

COMSTECH is an abbreviation for the OIC's Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation for the promotion and cooperation of science and technology activities among the OIC member states....
, he developed programs for scientific and technical cooperation among Muslim states and traveled extensively to many parts of the Muslim world
Muslim world

.The term Muslim world has several meanings. In a Culture sense it refers to the worldwide community of Muslims, adherents of Islam. This community Islam by country, roughly one-fifth of the world population....
. He was also the editor of Islamic Thought and Scientific Creativity—an international refereed journal in the field of Islam and science. When his efforts to fundamentally reform COMSTECH failed, he resigned and returned to Canada in 1999 and established the Center for Islam and Science the same year.

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