Islam and ecology : a bestowed trust / edited by Richard C. Foltz, Frederick M. Denny and Azizan Baharuddin.

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[2003], ©2003
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Cambridge, Mass. : Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [2003], ©2003.

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xliii, 584 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-547) and index.

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.
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.

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