He (and others) posit that the Muslim world turned it's back on science with the advent of fundamentalism
around the 12th century — in the form of Al - Ghazali who (according to wikipedia) embraced a form of theological occasionalism, or the
belief that all causal events and interactions are not the product of
material conjunctions but rather the immediate and present Will of God.
Featuring established and emerging international artists from
around the globe, the 14th edition of the Sharjah Biennial (SB14), Leaving the Echo Chamber, explores the possibilities and purpose of producing art when history is increasingly fictionalised, when ideas of «society» are invariably displaced, when borders and
beliefs are under constant renegotiation and our
material culture is under the constant threat of human destruction and climate degradation.