Fazlun Khalid

Signs on the Earth (eBook, ePUB)

Islam, Modernity and the Climate Crisis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A major study of environmentalism and Islam in practice and theory, with an historical overview that sets out future challenges, including reformulating the fiqh or Islamic legal tradition to take the ecological dimension seriously.

In addressing this book to the one billion Muslims in the world it has the potential to reinvigorate the desire for environmental change in a community that is ignored at the planets peril. In arguing that modernity, consumerism and industrialisation need to be rethought, alongside an appeal to reconnect man and woman with creation in the divine order, this book has the potential to transform a generation.

In the same way that Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything presented the argument for environmental action in a Capitalist framework, Fazlun Khalid has written a book that demands action from those whose primary orientation is towards the Islamic faith.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kube Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847740779
• Artikelnr.: 56800339

Autorenporträt

Fazlun Khalid is of Sri Lankan origin. He traces his ancestry to the Hadramut in Yemen and is a descendent of the intrepid sailors who pioneered the spice routes to the Far East in times gone by. Accompanied by a colleague of what was then known as the Ceylon Air Academy, he landed in New Haven on the south coast of England in 1953, from Dieppe in France. Fazlun Khalid has a worldwide reputation as an advocate of environmental protection rooted in religious traditions and is now recognised as one of fifteen leading eco-theologians in the world. He appeared on the Independent on Sunday list of the top 100 environmentalists in the UK in 2008 and is also listed amongst the "500 Most Influential Muslims in the World" by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan. He founded the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IFEES) which is now established as the world's leading Islamic environmental NGO.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
 
FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
 
CHAPTER 1 - A HOUSE OF CARDS
Hegemony
Brains, Black Holes and the Enlightenment
The Bridge
A Lethal Cocktail
 
CHAPTER 2 - A RAVISHED EARTH
Disconnected People
The Pollution Boomerang
Rape of the Forests
Ecocide
The Nectar of Life
A Delayed Reaction
 
CHAPTER 3 - PROSPERITY IN PERSPECTIVE
Happiness and the Good Life
The Progress Trap
Development and Delusions
The Growth Fantasy
 
CHAPTER 4 - HOW HISTORY ACCELERATED
All the Time in the World
Signs of Impatience
A Spurt
Acceleration
 
CHAPTER 5 - ISLAM AND THE NATURAL WORLD
Mobilising Faith
Rediscovering Nature
The Sacred
Islam and Environmental Ethics
Political Economy in Islam
Producing Results
Ilm ul khalq - Knowledge of Creation
Fiqh al biah - Jurisprudence of the Environment
The Shari'a in Perspective
A way forward
 
CHAPTER 6: SURVIVING THE ANTHROPOCENE
Collapse
What now?
Hope springs eternal
 
ENDNOTES
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY