Alas! I think that Ardis Parshall nails it in this brief blog post:
Thanks to Zander Sturgill for bringing it to my notice.
I’m reminded of the impassioned appeal of the great medieval philosopher-theologian al-Ghazali (d. AD 1111), toward the end of his Al-munqidh min al-dalal (“The Deliverer from Error”), in which he laments the anti-scientific attitude that he had already noticed among some of his contemporary fellow-Muslims: When they reject scientific explanations for disease and for eclipses, he says, they don’t bring science into disrepute. They bring shame and derision upon religion.
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