14317-ISME

Islamic Eco-Jurisprudence and Green Ethics

Birgit Krawietz

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- in Campus Management for ISME students only -

Kommentar

This MA course discusses ethical and more strictly jurisprudential publications by Muslim authors. It identifies prevailing tropes of their normative Green discourses that relate in various ways to Islamic heritage. It reviews some of the mushrooming scholarly literature about such developments. More specifically, it strives to identify and discuss a few structural shortcomings. It highlights proposals for the development of an Islamic ecological jurisprudence (fiqh al-bi’a) at large that could help to emancipate Muslim contributions to the debates under discussion. Concerning the majority of secondary literature and the various declarations published online, authors often feed eagerly into universal discourses, notably those relating to the so-called Abrahamitc faiths. This, in turn, has led to an assisting overemphasis on theology and nearly catalogue-style listing of the Holy sources of Islam. Among the most promising but hitherto still marginalized genres of Islamic writing, jurisprudence has been particularly sidelined for decades due to its widespread devaluation in black letter law and, lately, also through “the ethical turn. Schließen