Islam and ecology a bestowed trust
The environmental crisis falls hardest upon the world's poor, a disproportionate number of whom are Muslims. Islam contains a strong message of social justice, which challenges many of the environmentally destructive development models currently in place. Moreover, the Islamic tradition contain...
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Cambridge, MA
Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School Distributed by Harvard University Press
2003
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Richard C. Foltz
- Toward an understanding of environmental ethics from a Qur'anic perspective / Ibrahim Özdemir
- The universe alive : nature in the Masnavī of Jalal al-Din Rumi / L. Clarke
- Fitra : an Islamic model for humans and the environment / Saadia Khawar Khan Chishti
- Islam, the contemporary Islamic world, and the environmental crisis / Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Islam and the environment : theory and practice / Mawil Izzi Dien
- Islam and ecology : toward retrieval and reconstructon / S. Nomanul Haq. Peace in Islam : an ecology of the spirit / Abdul Aziz Said and Nathan C. Funk
- The basis for a discipline of Islamic environmental law / Othman Abd-ar-Rahman Llewellyn
- Islamic environmentalism : a matter of interpretation / Richard C. Foltz
- Toward an Islamic ecotheology / Kaveh L. Afrasiabi
- Islam, ecology, and modernity : an Islamic critique of the root causes of environmental degradation / Fazlun M. Khalid
- The environmental crisis of our time : a Muslim response / Yasin Dutton. Islam, Muslim society, and environmental concerns : a development model based on Islam's organic society / Hashim Ismail Dockrat
- Ecological justice and human rights for women in Islam / Nawal Ammar
- Scientific innovation and al-Mīzān / Mohammad Aslam Parvaiz
- Capacity building for sustainable development : the dilemma of Islamization of environmental institutions / Safei-Eldin A. Hamed
- Islam, the environment, and family planning : the cases of Egypt and Iran / Nancy W. Jabbra and Joseph G. Jabbra
- Ecological journey in Muslim Bengal / Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq.0 Islam in Malaysia's planning and development doctrine / Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed
- Aga Khan development network : an ethic of sustainable development and social conscience / Tazim R. Kassam
- Nature in Islamic urbanism : the garden in practice and in metaphor / Attilio Petrucciloi
- From the gardens of the Qur'an to the "gardens" of Lahore / James L. Wescoat
- Trees as ancestors : ecofeminism and the poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad / Farzaneh Milani