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  • Why Does the Muslim World Lag in Science? [How hot is hell and what are jinns made of?]

    12/28/2005 12:46:28 PM PST · by SJackson · 94 replies · 3,001+ views
    Middle East Forum ^ | June 1996 | Aaron Segal
    Aaron Segal, professor of political science at the University of Texas, El Paso, is the author of An Atlas of International Migration (Bowker, 1993) and Learning by Doing: Science, Technology and the Developing World (Westview, 1987). By any index, the Muslim world produces a disproportionately small amount of scientific output, and much of it relatively low in quality.1 In numerical terms, forty-one predominantly Muslim countries with about 20 percent of the world's total population generate less than 5 percent of its science. This, for example, is the proportion of citations of articles published in internationally circulating science journals.2 Other measures...