- 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.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
