Islam and Ecology
May 7-10, 1998
- Opening Sessions and Plenary Address
- Science, Environment, and Islam
- The Creational Balance and Environmental Responsibility
- Plenary Address
- Islamic Law and Environmental Ethics within Islam
- Islamic Principles and the Generation of Wealth
- Development Models within Islam
- Women and Ecology in Islam
- Islamic Aesthetics in the Natural and Constructed Worlds
Opening Sessions and Plenary Address
Opening Remarks:
Lawrence Sullivan, Director, CSWR,
John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University/CSWR
Fazlun Khalid, Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Presentation on the Earth Charter - Chair - Mary Evelyn Tucker, Project Coordinator, Bucknell University, and Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, USA
Reflections on the Process and Principles of the Earth Charter - Steven Rockefeller, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA
Interdisciplinary Panel:
Chair - John Grim, Project Coordinator, Bucknell University, CSWR, Harvard
Peter Rogers, Environmental Engineering and City Planning, Harvard University
Hynd Bouhia, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University
Frederick Denny, University of Colorado/Boulder, USA
Plenary Address
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. - The Religious Dimension of the Environmental Crisis - The Case of Islam
Opening Welcome
Chair - Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
Ali Asani, Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Language and Culture, Harvard University
Science, Environment, and Islam
Chair - Susan Gilson Miller, Associate Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Azizan Baharuddin, Institute for Policy Research, University of Malaysia - Science, Religion, and Environment - An Islamic Theology of Nature
Muhamad Awang, Dean, Faculty of Science, University Putra Malaysia - Ecophilosophical Development in Malaysia
Zekai Sen, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey - Role of the Environment in Human Faith and Ibn Sina's Perspectives
Ayub Ommaya, M.D., Bethesda, Maryland, USA - Integrating Science and Religion for Global Environmental Security : An Islamic Ecologic Perspective
The Creational Balance and Environmental Responsibility
Chair - Shahla Haeri, Anthropology, Boston University, USA
Muhammad Aslam Parvaiz, New Delhi, India - Genetic Engineering, Cloning, and Al-Mizan (The Balance)
Dawud Noibi, IQRA Trust, London, England - The Khalifah and His Trust: An Islamic Perspective on Ecological Responsibility
Saadia Khawar Khan Chishti, Federal Council, Parliament of Pakistan - Islam, Environment, and Sustainable Development
Ibrahim Ozdemir, Faculty of Divinity, Ankara University, Turkey - Toward a Qur'anic Concept of Environmental Ethics
Muhammad Zafar Mahafooz Nomani, Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University, India - Environmental Pollution and Conservation of Ecological Balance - A Search for an Islamic Development Model
Plenary Address
Introduction - Tom Kessinger, General Manager, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, Switzerland
Hasan-Uddin Khan, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA - Architecture of Islam - Responsibility and the Natural Environment
Islamic Law and Environmental Ethics within Islam
Chair - Roger Owen, Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard
Yasin Dutton, Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland - Islamic Law and the Environment
Mohamed Hyder, Emeritus, University of Nairobi, Mombasa, Kenya - Islam and Ecological Conservation - A Dichotomy of Principle and Practice
Hassim Ismail Dockrat, Director, Institute for Human and Enviromental Development, Pretoria, South Africa - Mu'amalat - Religious Behavior and Environmental Concern
Othman Llewellyn, National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - The Basis for a Discipline of Islamic Environmental Law
Mawi Izzi Dien, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Wales, UK - The Fracturing of Islamic Social Bonds and Environment
Islamic Principles and the Generation of Wealth
Chair - Wolfhart Heinrichs, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Harvard University
Nabil Maghrebi, Faculty of Economics, Wakayama University, Japan, with Ronaldo Potmis - Environmental Risks and Financial Returns: Conflicts and Compromises
Fazlun Khalid, Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, England - Foundations of Modernity: An Islamic Critique of the Root Causes of Environmental Degradation
Abdul Aziz Said, School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. - Peace in Islam - An Ecology of the Spirit
Safei-Eldin Hamed, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Texas Technical University, Lubbock, TX, USA - Towards Environmentally Sustainable Development - An Islamic Approach to Capacity Building
Development Models within Islam: Muslim Communities and Environmental Concern
Chair - A. Karim Ahmed, Deputy Director, Health, Environment and Development, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.
Abdulaziz H. Abuzinada, Secretary General, National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development, Saudi Arabia - Wildlife Conservation and Development in Islamic Society - The Experience of Saudi Arabia
Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed, Institute of Islamic Understanding, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Islam in Malaysia's Planning and Development Policy
Azim Nanji, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA - Reimaging the Environment in African Muslim Contexts
Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq, Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School - An Ecological Journey to the Islamic East (Bengal)
Tazim R. Kassam, Department of Religion, The Colorado College, USA - The AKDN's Ethic of Sustainable Development in South Asia
Richard Foltz, Department of Religion, Gettysburg College, USA - Islamic Environmentalism: A Matter of Interpretation
Women and Ecology in Islam
Chair - Nargis Virani, Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
Nawal Ammar, Kent State University, Girard, OH, USA - Ecological Justice and Human Rights for Women in Islam
Tahera Aftab, Professor of History & Director of Women's Studies, University of Karachi, Pakistan, Visiting Professor Gettysburg College - Women and Environmental Projects in Muslim Societies
S. Sabra Bokhari, Basic Education and Literacy, UNESCO, Paris - From Rio to Reality: Religious Perceptions, Cultural Barriers and Economic Factors in Case Studies of Muslim Women of Bangladesh, Egypt, Pakistan, and Senegal
Islamic Aesthetics in the Natural and Constructed Worlds
Chair - Alnoor Dhanani, Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Shakeel Hossain, Research Associate, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard/MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA - Between Sinful Innovation and the Ethos of the Land: Sacred Traditions and Ritual Art of the Indian Muslims
Ahmad-Mahdavi Damghani, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University /University of Pennsylvania, delivered by Mr. Dara Chafik - Protection of the Environment and Preservation of Natural Resources - A View Through Islamic Primary Texts
S. Nomanul Haq, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA - Nature in the Cosmology of Sufi Poetry and Imagination
Attilo Petruccioli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA - Nature in Islamic Urbanism: The Garden in Practice and in Metaphor