TOWARDS ISLAMIC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Cover Image

KA ISLAMSKOM EKOLOŠKOM PRAVU
TOWARDS ISLAMIC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Author(s): Nedim Begović
Subject(s): Islam studies, Human Ecology, Sharia Law, Qur’anic studies
Published by: Fakultet islamskih nauka u Sarajevu
Keywords: Islamic environmental law; natural environment; shariah intentions; sustainable development;

Summary/Abstract: Endangering and destruction of the environment and disordering of harmony between man and nature is one of the most serious problems that face humanity in this century. Muslims have responsibility, offering the world Islamic paradigm of relations with the Nature, to be completely included into its solution. In doing so, it is necessary to study instructions and directives of the Divine Revelation, works of Islamic legal and ethical thinkers, and gather examples from Islamic tradition in order to come to theoretical and practical solutions. Development of the Islamic environmental law, as well as expansion of the ecological conscience inspired by shariah law, would rather improve the sense of people’s responsibility toward God through their relation with the Nature which was given to them by the very God to use it, but also to improve it and to cherish it.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 161-180
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Bosnian