CONTENTS:
• The gate of Ijtihad : an introduction to the study of epistemological bias / Abdelwahab El-Messiri
• Bias in western schools of thought : our heritage as the starting point for development / Adel Hussein
• Theories of political development : a case of biased discourse in the political sciences / Nasr M. Arif
• Modernizing vs. westernizing the social sciences : the case of psychology / Rafik Habib
• Bias in curricula and course contents / Hoda Hegazy
• An exploration of the nature of human artificial intelligence and the Qur'anic perspective / Mahmoud Dhaouadi
• Confronting bias in the third world culture / Ferial J. Ghazoul
• Beyond methodology : forms of bias in western literary criticism / Saad Abdulrahman al-Baziʻi
• Theories and principles of design in the architecture of Islamic societies : a ceremonial approach to community building / A. I. Abdelhalim
• Reflections on technology and development : a cultural perspective / Hamed Ibrahim el-Mously
• Philosophical beliefs underlying the formulation of physical laws / Mahjoob Taha.