- Series Preface [Lawrence E. Sullivan]
- Series Foreword [Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim]
- Preface [Adnan Z. Amin]
- Introduction [Richard C. Foltz]
- 1. God, Humans, and Nature
- 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]
- 2. The Challenge of (Re)Interpretation
- 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 Reconstruction [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]
- 3. Environment and Social Justice
- 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]
- 4. Toward a Sustainable Society
- Scientific Innovation and al-Mīzēn [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]
- An Ecological Journey in Muslim Bengal [Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq]
- Islam in Malaysia’s Planning and Development Doctrine [Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed]
- The Aga Khan Development Network: An Ethic of Sustainable Development and Social Conscience [Tazim R. Kassam]
- 5. The Islamic Garden as Metaphor for Paradise
- Nature in Islamic Urbanism: The Garden in Practice and in Metaphor [Attilio Petruccioli]
- From the Gardens of the Qur’an to the “Gardens” of Lahore [James L. Wescoat, Jr.]
- Trees as Ancestors: Ecofeminism and the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad [Farzaneh Milani]
- Glossary of Arabic Terms
- Bibliography on Islam and Ecology [Richard C. Foltz]
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD AND ECOLOGY
Islam and Ecology
A Bestowed Trust
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$52.50 • £42.95 • €47.50
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Publication Date: 10/01/2003
624 pages
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