[spoiler][/spoiler]Dr . Syed Nomanul Haq is Dr . Haq teaches at University of Pennsylvania . Prior to this , Dr . Haq held professorial positions at Rutgers , Tufts and Brown Universities , and this followed his postdoctoral appointment at the Center of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University . He is General Editor of Oxford University Press’ Studies in Islamic Philosophy series , and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals , including Islamic Studies , and the Journal of Islamic Science . He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the UN sponsored Forum on Religion and Ecology , and of the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Science and Technology , Islamabad; he is an advisor and honorary professor of Hamdard University , Karachi , and a visiting scholar of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania .

 At the undergraduate level Dr . Haq was trained as a physical scientist , receiving his first degree from England’s Hull University . Subsequently , he entered the field of the history of philosophy , and the history and philosophy of science , eventually focusing on the general area of mediaeval Islamic intellectual history . He worked for his doctorate largely at Harvard University where he remained a transfer student from the University of London , receiving the degree in 1990 .

 Dr . Haq has published widely and in diverse areas . His first book , Names , Natures , and Things , has been published in two editions by the Dutch publishing house , Kluwer Academic Publishers; this book , a volume in the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science series , reconstructs the metaphysical system of the famous alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan , known as “Geber” in the mediaeval Latin West . In the field of Islamic mysticism , Dr . Haq is completing a book in Urdu on the sufi-martyr Ibn Mansur Hallaj , and is completing another one in English , the latter to be published by Oxford University Press ( OUP ) . In the OUP’s Studies in Islamic Philosophy series , Dr . Haq has just edited a volume by Professor Sherman Jackson; and , along with Muzaffar Iqbal and Ted Peters , he has jointly edited a book entitled , God , Life , and Cosmos ( Ashgate , 2002 ) .

 The American History of Science Association’s official journal Isis , the Journal of the American Oriental Society , and the Harvard Middle East and Islamic Review are among the numerous international scholarly journals in which Dr . Haq has been published . The prestigious periodical of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Daedalus has recently published his paper on Islamic environmental philosophy written by him . In 2001 , he published in the journal Nature a review of Stepehen Jay Gould’s Rocks of Ages , discussing the question of science and religion; Nature has published Dr . Haq’s articles also in the past . He has also contributed to E . J . Brill’s The Encyclopaedia of Islam , the most recent being an extensive discourse on the concept of nature ( fusis ) in Islamic philosophy and science . Among several books containing chapters written by Dr . Haq are the Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy , Blackwell Companion to Environmental Philosophy , Ultimate Realities ( ed . Robert Neville ) , The Human Condition ( ed . Robert Neville ) , Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World , The Encyclopedia of Science in Non-Western Cultures , and many others . To his credit are also journalistic writings , prominent among them is an article of his that was published on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times .

 Dr . Haq was the recipient of the year 2000 Science and Religion Course Prize of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences , Berkeley , funded by the Templeton Foundation .