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Signs on the Earth

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The magnum opus of the West’s leading Muslim environmentalist.
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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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Price: $18.95
Pages: 256
Publisher: Kube Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Kube Publishing Ltd
Publication Date: 05 February 2019
Trim Size: 7.70 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9781847740755
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

RELIGION / Islam / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies
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.

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

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What now?

Hope springs eternal

 

ENDNOTES

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY