Islam and ecology
Subtitle: a bestowed trust
By: edited by Richard C. Foltz, Frederick M. Denny and Azizan Baharuddin.
Contributors: Foltz, Richard, 1961-; Denny, Frederick Mathewson.; Azizan Haji Baharuddin.
Series: Religions of the world and ecology
Publisher: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
Subjects: Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Nature -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Environmental protection -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Environmentalism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-547) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Richard C. Foltz; title: Toward an understanding of environmental ethics from a Qur'anic perspective -- Ibrahim Özdemir; title: The universe alive : nature in the Masnavī of Jalal al-Din Rumi -- L. Clarke; title: Fitra : an Islamic model for humans and the environment -- Saadia Khawar Khan Chishti; title: Islam, the contemporary Islamic world, and the environmental crisis -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr; title: Islam and the environment : theory and practice -- Mawil Izzi Dien; title: Islam and ecology : toward retrieval and reconstruction -- S. Nomanul Haq; title: Peace in Islam : an ecology of the spirit -- Abdul Aziz Said and Nathan C. Funk; title: The basis for a discipline of Islamic environmental law -- Othman Abd-ar-Rahman Llewellyn; title: Islamic environmentalism : a matter of interpretation -- Richard C. Foltz; title: Toward an Islamic ecotheology -- Kaveh L. Afrasiabi; title: Islam, ecology, and modernity : an Islamic critique of the root causes of environmental degradation -- Fazlun M. Khalid; title: The environmental crisis of our time : a Muslim response -- Yasin Dutton; title: Islam, Muslim society, and environmental concerns : a development model based on Islam's organic society -- Hashim Ismail Dockrat; title: Ecological justice and human rights for women in Islam -- Nawal Ammar; title: Scientific innovation and al-Mīzān -- Mohammad Aslam Parvaiz; title: Capacity building for sustainable development : the dilemma of Islamization of environmental institutions -- Safei-Eldin A. Hamed; title: Islam, the environment, and family planning : the cases of Egypt and Iran -- Nancy W. Jabbra and Joseph G. Jabbra; title: Ecological journey in Muslim Bengal -- Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq; title: Islam in Malaysia's planning and development doctrine -- Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed; title: Aga Khan development network : an ethic of sustainable development and social conscience -- Tazim R. Kassam; title: Nature in Islamic urbanism : the garden in practice and in metaphor -- Attilio Petrucciloi; title: From the gardens of the Qur'an to the "gardens" of Lahore -- James L. Wescoat; title: Trees as ancestors : ecofeminism and the poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad-- Farzaneh Milani.