Traditional Islamic Environmentalism

Tarik M. Quadir

doi:10.5771/9780761861447

Summary

This work examines the relevance of traditional Islamic thought and practices for a lasting solution to the current environmental crisis. Quadir describes how Seyyed Hossein Nasr challenges Muslims to reclaim their traditional intellectual and Sufi heritage as powerful means toward a most thoughtful approach to the crisis. In so doing, Nasr urges us to take a critical look at the consequences of the worldviews generated by modern science and technology and offers bold solutions for a more caring relationship between man and nature. The book argues that only a revival of the traditional worldview which perceives all entities of nature as signs of God can effectively respond to the crisis our planet faces.

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Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-6143-0
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-6144-7
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 263
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. 0.1 The Environmental Crisis Is caused by Modern Technology-Based Lifestyles No access
2. 0.2 Seyyed Hossein Nasr No access
3. 0.3 Failures of Mainstream Environmentalism No access
4. 0.4 The Role for Religions and the Significance of Nasr No access
5. 0.5 Nasr on Technological Solutions No access
6. 0.6 Nasr and the Perennial Philosophy No access
7. 0.7 Nasr and Traditional Islam No access
8. 0.8 Environmentalism in the Muslim World and Nasr No access
9. 0.9 The Need for a Sacred Science No access
10. 0.10 Introduction Summary No access
11. Notes No access
1. 1.1 Nature in the Pre-Modern Christian Europe No access
2. 1.2 The Root Is in Rationalism No access
3. 1.3 The Renaissance Humanism and the Emergence of the Promethean Man No access
4. 1.4 Scientific Revolution and the Divorce of Science from Metaphysics No access
5. 1.5 Scientism and Scientific Progressivism during the Enlightenment and Beyond No access
6. 1.6 Nasr’s General Recommendations for All Civilizations No access
7. 1.7 Chapter Summary No access
8. Notes No access
1. 2.1 The Perennial Principles and the Islamic Tradition No access
2. 2.2 Metaphysical Exposition of Tawhīd and the Hierarchy of Reality No access
3. 2.3 Chapter Summary No access
4. Notes No access
1. 3.1 Nasr’s Strategies for the Dissemination and Application of the Knowledge of Islamic Environmental Ethics No access
2. 3.2 Religious and Metaphysical Doctrines at the Foundation of Islamic Ethics No access
3. 3.3 The Metaphysics of the Hierarchy of Reality Provides the Rationale for Sharī‘ā No access
4. 3.4 Sufism and the Supremacy of Knowledge by the Heart No access
5. 3.5 Sufi Popularization of Nature’s Wonder No access
6. 3.6 Chapter Summary No access
7. Notes No access
1. 4.1 Nasr on the Contemporary Muslim Attitude towards Modern Science and Technology No access
2. 4.2 The Advent of Scientific Progressivism No access
3. 4.3 The Salafi Modernists No access
4. 4.4 Conservative Salafi Rejection of Secularism No access
5. 4.5 Revivalist/Revolutionary Salafi Movements No access
6. 4.6 Transcendence of God and the Growing Affinity between Wahhābīs and Salafis No access
7. 4.7 Chapter Summary No access
8. Notes No access
1. 5.1 Traditional Islamic Sciences No access
2. 5.2 Classification of Sciences No access
3. 5.3 Example of the Traditional Scientists No access
4. 5.4 Chapter Summary No access
5. Notes No access
1. 6.1 Nasr and the Philosophy of Science No access
2. 6.2 Limitations of Modern Science No access
3. 6.3 Scientism Denies tawhīd and the Hierarchy of Reality No access
4. 6.4 Scientism Denies any Ultimate Meaning or Purpose No access
5. 6.5 Scientism in Action No access
6. 6.6 Nasr’s Arguments against the Theory of Evolution No access
7. 6.7 Modern Science as a Way of Takthīr No access
8. 6.8 Takthīr, the Environmental Crisis, and the Predicament for Muslims No access
9. 6.9 Chapter Summary No access
10. Notes No access
1. 7.1 Work and Spirituality in Islam No access
2. 7.2 The Machine and Its Relationship with the Human Being No access
3. 7.3 Preservation and Revival of Traditional Modes of Production No access
4. 7.4 Chapter Summary No access
5. Notes No access
1. 8.1 Why Metaphysics? Why the Metaphysics of Mullā Sadrā? No access
2. 8.2 An Outline of Sadrā’s Natural Philosophy No access
3. 8.3 Implications of Mullā Sadrā’s Natural Philosophy No access
4. 8.4 Technology Based on the New Islamic Science No access
5. 8.5 The Debate over Islamic Science No access
6. 8.6 Reform of Educational Institutions No access
7. 8.7 Chapter Summary No access
8. Notes No access
1. 9.1 Summary of Nasr’s Approach for the Islamic World No access
2. 9.2 What Have We Achieved? No access
3. 9.3 Final Reflections No access
4. Notes No access
1. Books, Articles and Interviews No access
2. Public Lectures, Class Notes, and Conversations No access
3. Internet Sources No access
Index of Terms No access Pages 255 - 258
Index of Proper Names No access Pages 259 - 263