Full Description
Environmental challenges require diverse legal approaches. In this comprehensive handbook, global scholars examine the nexus of Islam and environmental law as a significant yet understudied framework for contemporary governance. Spanning fourteen centuries of legal development, Islamic environmental jurisprudence offers sophisticated approaches to stewardship, resource management, and climate policy. Chapters include detailed case studies of Pakistan's constitutional courts and Malaysia's environmental legislation, Gulf economic transitions, and water-governance innovations, all demonstrating how Islamic legal principles inform real-world environmental solutions. Each contribution provides a nuanced analysis of how traditional concepts adapt to contemporary contexts across diverse Muslim-majority nations. Timely and innovative, this handbook is an ideal resource for environmental law scholars, comparative legal researchers, policy analysts, and development practitioners working in multicultural contexts.
Contents
Introduction Nadia Ahmad, Saba Kareemi, Oluwakemi Ayanleye and Erum Sattar; 1. Islamic policy of environmental conservation 1,500 years old - yet thoroughly modern Mohammad Arafa; 2. Acknowledging environmental externalities in Islamic legal critiques of corporate personhood Saba Kareemi; 3. Reconciling Islamic ethics, fossil fuel dependence, and climate change in the Middle East Saleem Ali; 4. Environmental stewardship in Islamic law: principles, institutions, and ecological governance in the Muslim world Mohammad Arafa; 5. Human dignity and environmental outcomes in Pakistan James May and Erin Daly; 6. Oil and institutional stasis in the Persian Gulf Mehran Kamrava; 7. Militarism, climate emissions and Islamic environmental ethics Nadia Ahmad; 8. An overview of the classical Islamic coastal and marine environmental law Hasan Khalilieh; 9. Property rights for landless agricultural workers and the flexibility of Hanafi land law jurisprudence: a solution for rural displacement? Erum Sattar; 10. A history of the Hima conservation system Lutfullah Gari; 11. The right to water in Islamic thought and manifestation in Islamic-Iranian cities Hooshmand Alizadeh and Golshan Hemati; 12. Intellectual property and the protection of the environment in Nigeria: lessons from Sharia Oluwakemi Ayanleye; 13. Implementing Islamic law to protect the environment: insights from Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia Shazny Ramlan; 14. Redefining Islamic 'good life:' environmental Maqasid in the post-carbon world Wardah Alkatiri; 15. Islamic legal perspectives on Genetically Modified Food (GMF) Anke Iman Bouzenita; 16. Shiekh Asim Farooq vs. Federation of Pakistan Jawad Hassan; 17. Al-Meezan: a covenant for the Earth İbrahim Özdemir; 18. Towards environmental sustainability: a reflection on Islamic Epistemologies and models for sustainable development Nematullah Azizi; 19. Arabic treatises on environmental pollution Lutfullah Gari; 20. Islamic environmental law revisited as a sub-discipline of environmental justice: empowering community-led compliance in Muslim countries Ridoan Karim; 21. Animal rights in Islam Sarah Tilli; 22. Islamic finance and environmental law Dalal Aassouli and Damilola S. Olawuyi; 23. Fossil divestment / geoengineering Imam Saffet Abid Catovic; 24. The protection of the basic natural resources and man under Islamic law: a new tool for sustainable development and greening of the environment Mohammad Arafa; 25. Faith based approaches to environmental law Nadia Ahmad; 26. Charting the future of Islamic environmental law in an age of planetary crisis Nadia Ahmad, Saba Kareemi, Oluwakemi Ayanleye and Erum Sattar.
