Ecotheology and Love

Bahar Davary is professor of religious studies and affiliate faculty of the Ethnic Studies and Asian Studies Departments at the University of San Diego. She is author of Women and the Qur’an: A Study in Islamic Hermeneutics.

• Chapter 1. Love: A Way of Knowing and Being in Islamic Contemplative TraditionChapter 2. Ecopoetics of a Persian Poet: Beyond Nature PoetryChapter 3. Ecotheology and Ecojustice: Beyond The Green ExpanseChapter 4. Poetry, Politics, Social Justice, and Resistance

“Bahar Davary’s Ecotheology and Love is a profound meditation on nature mysticism in the context of Islam. Davary explores the rich imagination of a supremely gifted poet, mystic, and painter, the Iranian Sohrab Sepehri, through a rich dialogue with Baldwin, as well as the Qur’an and other Muslim luminaries. In the process we learn not only about the sanctity of nature, but the very process of a deep and meaningful interreligious engagement far beyond the superficiality of so much of current ‘interfaith dialogue.’ Highly recommended!”