ABSTRACT
Before the rise of modern science, the Islam and science discourse existed within the larger intellectual tradition of Islam and although there were many foreign currents that ran through the warp and weft of the tradition, it remained integrally linked to the Islamic worldview. This situation was to drastically change with the withering of the Islamic scientific tradition and its eventual replacement with the modern western science. These fundamental changes have altered the parameters of the Islam and science discourse and demand a different kind of exploration. We will explore these new and emerging facets of Islam and science discourse in chapter ten. In the present chapter, the exploration is restricted to the relationship between Islam and science before the rise of modern science-a restraint borne out of the very nature of the subject matter.
