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Signs on the earth : Islam, modernity and the climate crisis /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Markfield, Leicestershire, England :
Kube Publishing Ltd,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword and acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: A house of cards. Hegemony
- Brains, black holes and the Enlightenment
- The bridge
- A lethal cocktail
- Endnotes
- Chapter 2: A ravished earth. A disconnected people
- The pollution boomerang
- Rape of the forests
- Ecocide
- The nectar of life
- A delayed reaction
- Endnotes
- Chapter 3: Prosperity in perspective. Happiness and the good life
- The progress trap
- Development and delusions
- The fantasy of growth
- Endnotes
- Chapter 4: How history accelerated. All the time in the world
- Signs of impatience
- A spurt
- Acceleration
- Endnotes
- Chapter 5: Islam and the natural world. Mobilizing faith
- Rediscovering the natural world
- Producing results
- Endnotes
- Chapter 6: Surviving the anthropocene. Collapse
- What now?
- Hope springs eternal
- Endnotes
- Appendix: Islamic declaration on global climate change
- List of acronyms
- Glossary of Arabic terms
- List of quotations from the Qur'an
- Bibliography
- Index.