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Signs on the earth : Islam, modernity and the climate crisis / Fazlun M. Khalid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khalid, Fazlun M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.
- Climatic changes.
- Human ecology--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Markfield, Leicestershire, United Kingdom : Kube Publishing Ltd, [2019]
- Summary:
- The magnum opus of the West's leading Muslim environmentalist.
- Contents:
- Intro
- About the Book
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A House of Cards
- Hegemony
- Encirclement
- Consolidation
- Humiliation
- Brains, black holes and the Enlightenment
- Knowledge overload
- Science to the fore
- The Bridge
- The middle nation
- The sacred and the secular
- A Lethal Cocktail
- Makings of a monoculture
- The colonies revolt
- Democracy and the nature of money
- Endnotes
- Chapter 2 A Ravished Earth
- A Disconnected People
- Are we culpable?
- A closed system
- A wake up call
- The Pollution Boomerang
- The hole in the sky
- People, poison and plastic
- Rape of the Forests
- Plantations and cash crops
- Carbon sink
- Ecocide
- Bio diversity
- Extinction
- The Nectar of Life
- In space and time
- Deep oceans and biodiversity
- A Delayed Reaction
- Global responses
- Abusing abundance
- Chapter 3 Prosperity in Perspective
- Happiness and the Good Life
- Happiness and GDP
- Happiness and GNH
- The Progress Trap
- Lifestyle change
- Progress has a price
- Development and Delusions
- Corralling the world
- Colonized psyches
- Ideology
- Hope and sustainable development
- A cautionary tale
- Feedback loop
- The Fantasy of Growth
- The 'Holy Grail'
- Planetary overload
- Chapter 4 How History Accelerated
- All the Time in the World
- Transactions
- Gifts or barter?
- Keeping accounts
- Trade evolves
- Enter the Greeks
- The Venetian connection
- Signs of Impatience
- Enter the Portuguese
- Chinese in the fray
- A new world in the making
- A Spurt
- Wealth flows one way
- Revolutions
- Acceleration
- Fast forward
- Enter the banks
- Fantasy land
- Chapter 5 Islam and The Natural World
- Mobilizing Faith
- Biodegradable Earth.
- A vital alliance
- Pushed by climate change
- The Muslim contribution
- Rediscovering the Natural World
- A holistic approach
- The sacred
- Ethics
- Political economy
- Producing Results
- Exploring the legacy
- 'Ilm'ul-Khalq (Knowledge of Creation)
- Fiqh al-Bi'ah (Jurisprudence of the Environment)
- The Shariah in perspective
- A way forward
- Chapter 6 Surviving the Anthropocene
- Collapse
- The human epoch
- Heads in the sand
- What Now?
- Connectedness
- Search for a better life
- Growth without limits?
- Capitalism: A debtocracy
- Hope Springs Eternal
- The turning
- Working together
- The Islamic contribution
- Appendix: Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change
- List of Acronyms
- Glossary of Arabic terms
- List of quotations from the Qur'an
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-84774-077-4
- OCLC:
- 1089986602
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