scholarly journals Environmentalism and Sustainability as an Expression of Islamic Morality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Zilio-Grandi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Muslim Intellectuals

The present essay relates to a line of enquiry that focuses on the Islamic contribution to the values held in common by different cultural traditions, with the aim of working towards a shared ethical conscience and peaceful coexistence in the cities of a globalised world. The essay emphasises cultural specificities, starting with the terminology currently used to describe environmentalism and sustainability. Drawing on the works of a number of contemporary Arab Muslim intellectuals, my enquiry aims to look at environmental sustainability from an Islamic perspective, and to address it as part of the ethical heritage of Islam.

Eccentric modernity? An Islamic perspective on the civilizing process and the public sphere

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Salvatore
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article engages with Johann Arnason’s approach to the entanglements of culture and power in comparative civilizational analysis by simultaneously reframing the themes of the civilizing process and the public sphere. It comments and expands upon some key insights of Arnason concerning the work of Norbert Elias and Jürgen Habermas by adopting an ‘Islamic perspective’ on the processes of singularization of power from its cultural bases and of reconstruction of a modern collective identity merging the steering capacities and the participative ambitions of an emerging urban intelligentsia. The Islamic perspective provides insights into the interplay between civilizing processes and the modes through which cultural traditions innervate a modern public sphere. By revisiting key remarks of Arnason on Elias and Habermas, the Islamic perspective gains original contours, reflecting the search for a type of modernity that is eccentric to the mono-civilizational axis of the Western-led, global civilizing process. While this eccentric positioning entails a severe imbalance of power, it also relativizes the centrality of the modern state in the civilizing process and evidences some original traits of the public sphere in a non-Western context.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship as An Agent for Social-Ethical Reform: An Islamic Perspective

ICR Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Amana Raquib ◽  
Imran Khan
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Islamic Business Ethics ◽  
Muslim Intellectuals ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Way

This paper argues that the various contemporary crises are both the cause and effect of contemporary consumer culture, which tends to create artificial needs by marketing unneeded products and services as elements of identity and self-image. Thus, Muslim intellectuals and entrepreneurs need to join hands towards a holistic appraisal and design of an Islamic business ethics. However, the way Muslim entrepreneurs learn and teach business currently, does not encourage a sense of responsibility towards finding solutions. Many Muslim entrepreneurs are unaware either of the extent, nature and magnitude of the crises resulting from overconsumption, or of the Islamic religio-ethicospiritual perspective and guidance. Thus presently, Muslim-run businesses constitute part of the problem rather than solutions. To act as agents for reform, Muslim entrepreneurs a deeper understanding of the rich repository of Islamic beliefs, concepts and practices that need to be revived within the societies through their business models and practices.

scholarly journals THE ORIGINS OF THE ARABIC TRANSLATION TRADITION

Adam alemi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-172
Author(s):  
J. Altayev ◽  
◽  
Z. Imanbayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
International Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
The Rich

The Arab Caliphate was famous for its highly developed book culture and the fact that it turned the Arabic language into the international language of communication, science and art throughout the Arab-Muslim East. During the reign of the Abbasid dynasty, the Arab-Muslim civilization is experiencing the peak of its heyday and power. Under the Abbasids, Baghdad became not only the political, but also the cultural capital of the Caliphate. The famous House of Wisdom opens in Baghdad, where a large-scale translation activity has been carried out for centuries. The Abbasids achieved amazing success because they were able to absorb the rich cultural traditions of the peoples they conquered. At the same time, they pursued their own political goals - the strengthening and development of the Arab Caliphate. The Abbasids were not pioneers in translation, they skillfully used and developed the pre-Islamic developments of the Iranians in this area. It is important to study the reasons why the Arab Caliphate at one time reached historical heights. This is necessary in order for the lessons of the past to serve the good of the present.

scholarly journals Dialogue of East and West on the Example of Arab-Muslim Сulture

Al-Farabi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
J. Altayev ◽  
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Zh. Imanbayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movements ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
East And West ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Muslim Culture ◽  
The Ideal

The dialogue expresses the simultaneous coexistence of the past and the present, the preservation of continuity between them. The Arab-Muslim civilization, in its heyday, embodied the ideal of dialogue between East and West. The purpose of this study is to study the mechanisms of intercultural dialogue of the Eastern Renaissance era, analyze them for their application in the conditions of the modern globalized world. Islam played a key role in the formation and development of the Arab-Muslim civilization. Religion, along with philosophy and science, played the role of a connecting link in the spiritual and intellectual life of medieval Muslim society. Dialogue is possible when, in the collision of different cultural traditions, some new unifying knowledge is synthesized. The development of their own spiritual and religious movements as Sufism among the peoples of Central Asia conquered by the Arabs indicates that the Arab-Muslim culture was not limited to Islam. The peoples of the Arab Caliphate preserved and developed their distinctive cultural and religious traditions.

scholarly journals Sustainable livestock agriculture from Islamic perspective.

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (026) ◽  
Author(s):  
Awal Fuseini
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
The Impact

Abstract With the impact of climate change becoming increasingly apparent, there have been calls for world leaders to take measures aimed at mitigating the potential effect on the environment of the rapid expansion in human population, urbanisation, deforestation, agricultural development, industrialisation and the rampant burning of fossil fuels. This article reviews literature on the spiritual dimensions of environmental sustainability from an Islamic perspective, with emphasis on the sustainable utilisation of agricultural resources linked to production and consumption. The religious standpoints on stewardship of nature (Khilafa), climate change and animal welfare are explored from within the Islamic scriptures to gain a better understanding of sustainable development from an Islamic perspective, particularly with regard to meat production. The description of humans as stewards or guardians of nature in Islamic literature is a direct call from God for humanity to safeguard the natural capital in order to maintain synergistic relationship between flora, fauna and other biodiversity.

scholarly journals Challenging Harmony to Save Nature? Environmental Activism and Ethics in Taiwan and Japan

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laÿna Droz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Sense Of Purpose ◽  
Participatory Observation

To save nature, environmental activists in Taiwan and Japan are willing to change their behavior and society itself, challenging “harmony” in their communities. This paper explores the tension between globally relevant environmental activism and localized cultural traditions. A wide-encompassing understanding of environmental activism is proposed, based on a tentative typology of different positions regarding environmental sustainability. This paper follows some environmental activists’ journey to moral protest, through semi-structured interviews and participatory observation conducted between 2015 and 2019. It then discusses the results in light of some traditions of thought in Taiwan and Japan. Interviewees often tell about an event in their life that triggered a moral shock and exacerbated their feeling of urgency. Activists’ sense of purpose motivates them to navigate psychological and social obstacles such as social disapproval and exclusion. They also tend to build a “community of activism” through social media to support each other and develop strategies.

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