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Sheikh Haythem Limam, Content Manager, Radio Zitouna FM (For Holy Quran) and an affiliate of KAICIID Dialogue Centre, spoke about the role of Islam in protecting the environment during the ''Role of Faith in Protecting the Earth'' workshop which was organized by the URI MENA under the UNEP Faith for Earth initiative in Amman on 17 December 2022.

The environmental spirit of Islam is manifested principally in six ways: through the Oneness of Allah and His creation (tawhid), Justice (Adl), compassionate stewardship (Khalifa), signs of the Creator (Ayat), trust with the Creator (Amana), and living in just balance with nature (Mizan). We will discuss these dimensions through the optics of faith in action as manifested by the various works and activities of the ISNA Green Initiative Team, which is putting the core environmental tenants of Islam into practice. We will also discuss stewardship as a collective responsibility to care for Mother Earth and each other across all faiths, nationalities, and ethnicities through the areas of advocacy, environmental justice, and personal lifestyle choices and consumption. This webinar was recorded on December 5, 2021.

This public lecture broadly examines the so-called “Ecological Question (EQ)” from an Islamic perspective. Without narrowing the EQ down to the exclusive issue of sustainability, this lecture highlights the broader picture by exploring the vast and rich Islamic tradition. Besides addressing the relevant Quranic concepts, the speakers will engage with various scholarly disciplines grounded in the Islamic tradition. Speakers: Naiyerah Kolkailah (University of Oxford, UK); Birgit Krawietz (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany); Munjed Murad (Harvard University, US); Moderator: Mohammed Ghaly (CILE, Hamad Bin Khalifa University). This lecture was hosted by the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics in Qatar and was delivered on October 13, 2021.

CILE Online Seminar: Food Security and Islamic Ethics: Human Rights, State Policies and Vulnerable Groups. This seminar is convened from Doha, Qatar by Dr. Ray Jureidini, who directs the CILE Research Unit Migration, Ethics and Human Rights, Dr. Dalal Aassouli, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of the Master of Science Program in Islamic Finance at CIS, and Dr. Said Hassan, Assistant Professor at Al-Azhar University, Egypt. The seminar discusses the question of food security with three combined perspectives: the world response to the challenge of sustainable food security, the Islamic perspective in addressing food security concerns and the most vulnerable groups who face this issue, including women, children, migrants and the displaced. This event was streamed on May 30, 2021. For the booklet, full list of speakers and presentations, please visit here.

In this panel on water equity and climate resilience in recognition of World Water Day, three Muslim women environmental activists discuss the principles of environmental justice as they relate to Islamic climate action and issues surrounding water. This event was streamed live on March 22, 2021. 

Fazlun Khalid, founder of the Islamic Federation of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, and Hazim Azghari, currently researching his DPhil on the relationship between humans and the environment in the early centuries of Islam in the Mediterranean, present remarks on three broad areas of Islam and ecology. They cover: (1) evidence from the Qur'an and Sunnah that it is our obligation to care for the environment, and how we should go about it; (2) negative effects of climate change and environmental damage and its impact on Muslims around the world; and (3) current steps being taken by Muslim countries/communities to care better for the environment and tackle climate change and what steps we can take as individuals to help the cause. This conversation took place on Feb 20, 2021.

Muslims around the world are concerned about climate change and its impact on humanity. However, many Muslim leaders have been discussing their role, how Islam addresses issues related to climate change and how Muslim leaders can lead a concerted movement to mobilize the larger community across the globe. This webinar, organized in collaboration with the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board of the United Kingdom, brings together Islamic scholars to discuss the role of Mosques and Imams in the decade of climate action. This event was hosted on November 5th,  2020.

Speakers include: Dr Fazlun Khalid (Founder Director - Islamic Foundation for Ecology & Environmental Sciences - The Urgency For Climate Action - An Islamic Perspective), Qari Asim MBE (Chair - Mosque & Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB) - The Role of Mosques and Imams), Dr Iyad Abumoghli (Director - Faith For Earth, United Nations Environment Programme - Faith For Earth - The Global Potential), Naeema Hales, Outreach Manager (IFEES/EcoIslam - The Role of Muslim Women in Environmental Protection), Fahmida Khatun, TBC (The Hive, Al Madina Mosque, Barking - Environmental Practices in Mosques), Kamran Shezad (Bahu Trust - Host)

Dr. Husna Ahmad presents an ethical review of the global environmental status through the lens of the theological-Islamic perspective on climate change and environment. She discusses recent climate action by Islamic and other faith communities, as well as the linkages between ethics and environment in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This talk took place on March 23, 2019 at the CILE 7th Annual International Conference “A Global Ethical Approach to Social Justice and Environmental Issues.”

Rabbi Lawrence Troster, Dr. Heather Eaton, and Dr. Safei Eldin Hamed offer responses from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions to Journey of the Universe. Rabbi Troster, a late Jewish environmental activist, draws from the Books of Genesis and Isaiah to suggest that the science of the universe story is offering people a vision of a new heaven and a new Earth. Dr. Heather Eaton, a theologian at Saint Paul University, highlights the need for Christians to retrieve its focus on creation, to reinterpret justice as ecojustice, and to reconstruct theologies of incarnation to encompass the entire Earth community. Dr. Safei Eldin Hamed, a scholar of environmental planning at Chatham University, interprets the Quran to suggest that there is equality between all creatures and that Islam can offer a holistic and functional cosmology for our contemporary world. This event took place at the Journey of the Universe and Our Elegant Universe Symposium on 06/26/2013.

Contemporary Issues in environmental ethics based on Islamic paradigm, Faraz Khan discusses the practical Environmental Ethics and a review of major works in this field. This talk was recorded on February 20, 2009.