Environmental Dimensions of Islam

Mawil Izzi Dien has been writing about Islam and the environment since the early 1980s, when the United Nations published his first study, and is considered to be the world's leading authority on his subject. He lectures in Islamic Studies and runs a course on Religion and the Environment at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He is the author of The Market Law of Islam, and has contributed numerous articles in the Encyclopaedia of Islam. He is President of the Institut Europeen des Sciences Humaines Saint-Leger-Fougeret and was until recently a Council Member in the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

• Foreword by Professor Rodney WilsonPrefaceAcknowledgementsPoints of Methodology1. Introduction2. The Environment and its Components in Islam3. Islamic Theology Pertaining to the Environment4. Towards Islamic Environmental Ethics5. Islamic Legal Perspectives on the Environment6. Islamic Economic Justice and the Environment7. Environmental Protection and Public Interest8. International Effort Towards Conservation9. ConclusionsNotesBibliographyGlossaryIndex

"It admirably and largely successfully attempts to avoid abstraction ... I would recommend the book." The Environmentalist "A pioneer work to be commended. The author is at his most persuasive in the chapters which concern Islamic law, economic justice, and public interest. The author is sympathetic to calls for Christianity and Islam to join together in combating modern materialistic trends which are causing long-term damage to the welfare of human beings." Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol 6, No. 2, 2001