Science

Here is how Science is viewed in the world that Boualem is living in:
"1. Science has the right to pay attention only to those questions not settled in the Book.
2. Any scientific result and any scientific discovery must be challenged by the Text in order to find justification from them there.
3. Our religion is the source of all knowledge: any scientific or moral law, any legislation decreed in the time preceding this religion, when humanity was steeped in darkness, lies and barbarism, is null and void"(94).

This quote pretty much sums up the feelings of the society Boualem is living in towards science.