Career
Iqbal is the founding president of the Center for Islam and Science, Alberta, Canada. He has written twenty-three books. Iqbal is editor of a journal of Islamic perspectives on science and civilization, Islam and science.
Iqbal's published works are on Islam, Sufism, and their relationship with Western thought.
Iqbal appeared on PBS's Ask the Experts in 2003, discussing science and Islam.
In an article on Islamic Science, the New York Times quoted Iqbal as a chemist and founder of the Center for Islam and Science as explaining that modern science did not claim to address the purpose of life, whereas in the Islamic world, purpose was integral.
Iqbal was one of the experts called on by the Physics and Cosmology Group of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, alongside scientists including Andrei Linde of Stanford University, John Polkinghorne of Cambridge University, Paul Davies of Macquarie University and Charles Townes of the University of California, Berkeley. Between 1996 and 2003, the group conducted an intensive public dialogue on science and spirituality.
In addition, Iqbal is a supporter of Intelligent design, and is a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design. He has endorsed work by intelligent design theorist William Dembski.
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