Tarik M. Quadir

Traditional Islamic Environmentalism (eBook, ePUB)

The Vision of Seyyed Hossein Nasr

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work examines the relevance of traditional Islamic thought and practices for a lasting solution to the current environmental crisis. Quadir describes how Seyyed Hossein Nasr challenges Muslims to reclaim their traditional intellectual and Sufi heritage as powerful means toward a most thoughtful approach to the crisis. In so doing, Nasr urges us to take a critical look at the consequences of the worldviews generated by modern science and technology and offers bold solutions for a more caring relationship between man and nature. The book argues that only a revival of the traditional worldview which perceives all entities of nature as signs of God can effectively respond to the crisis our planet faces.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761861447
• Artikelnr.: 39547338

Autorenporträt

Tarik M. Quadir, PhD, studied at Swarthmore College, George Washington University, Harvard University, and the University of Birmingham, UK. He currently teaches at the Necmettin Erbakan University in Turkey. Quadir's research interests include Sufism, the history of science, Islamic thought, environmentalism, peace-making, and South Asian religions.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
0.1 The Environmental Crisis is Caused by Modern Technology-Based
Lifestyles
0.2 Introduction to Seyyed Hossein Nasr
0.3 Failures of Mainstream Environmentalism
0.4 The Role for Religions and the Significance of Nasr
0.5 Nasr on Technological Solutions
0.6 Nasr and the Perennial Philosophy
0.7 Nasr and Traditional Islam
0.8 Environmentalism in the Muslim World and Nasr
0.9 The Need for a Sacred Science
0.10 Introduction Summary
Chapter 1
A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL
CRISIS
1.1 Nature in the Pre-Modern Christian Europe
1.2 The Root is in Rationalism
1.3 The Renaissance Humanism and the Emergence of the Promethean Man
1.4 Scientific Revolution and the Divorce of Science from Metaphysics
1.5 Scientism and Scientific Progressivism during the Enlightenment and
Beyond
1.6 Nasr's General Recommendations for all Civilizations
1.7 Chapter Summary
Chapter 2
THE PERENNIAL PRINCIPLES AND THE METAPHYSICS OF NATURE WITHIN I