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Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World
Series: - Themes in Islamic Studies, Volume: 9
Volume Editor:
Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World is an interdisciplinary volume that interrogates varied approaches to environmental and economic thought in classical Islam and in a few contemporary case studies. The contributions in this volume critique the dominant economic system and its perspective on the environment as a commodity across the boundaries of multiple intellectual traditions and academic fields. The book analyses both historical trajectories and modern schools of thought while simultaneously exploring ethical applications to environmental and economic discourses as a tool of critique. In this context, the authors conceptualize and treat these discourses as polyvalent and enmeshed with various political, ethical, and cosmological perspectives and vistas.
Sami Al-Daghistani Ph.D. (2017), is an Associate Professor (Docent) in Contemporary Islamic Studies at Lund University, an Associate Faculty Member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and a Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University. He is the author of
Ethical Teachings of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī: Economics of Happiness (2021),
The Making of Islamic Economic Thought (2022), and
Islam in ljubezen [Islam and Love] (2023), a co-editor of
Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es in the Middle East and North Africa (2021), and translator to Slovenian of Ibn Ṭufayl’s
Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān (2016) and Ibn Baṭṭūta’s
Riḥla (2017)."
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Sami Al-Daghistani
2 On Tazkiya and Zakāt al-Nafs: Decolonizing Modern Economic and Environmental Thought
Sami Al-Daghistani
3 Islamic Environmental Economics and Sciences of Nature
Waleed El-Ansary
4 A Neglected Notion: Iqtiṣād in Pre-modern and Early Modern Islamic Thought
Katharina Ivanyi
5 Islamic Resources for Water Conservation and Management
Natana Delong-Bas
6 Borrowing against the Future: Is Ecological Usury Changing the Climate?
Sarah Robinson
7 Senegalese Responses to Climate Change: An Ethical Analysis
Jonathan Brockopp
Index
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Sami Al-Daghistani
Part1 Premodern Islamic Environmental and Economic Thought
2 On Tazkiya and Zakāt al-Nafs: Decolonizing Modern Economic and Environmental Thought
Sami Al-Daghistani
3 Islamic Environmental Economics and Sciences of Nature
Waleed El-Ansary
4 A Neglected Notion: Iqtiṣād in Pre-modern and Early Modern Islamic Thought
Katharina Ivanyi
Part2 Modern Discourses on Water, Ecology, and Climate Change
5 Islamic Resources for Water Conservation and Management
Natana Delong-Bas
6 Borrowing against the Future: Is Ecological Usury Changing the Climate?
Sarah Robinson
7 Senegalese Responses to Climate Change: An Ethical Analysis
Jonathan Brockopp
Index
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