Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World

Sami Al-Daghistani Ph.D. (2017), is an Associate Professor (Docent) in Contemporary Islamic Studies at Lund University, an Associate Faculty Member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and a Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University. He is the author of Ethical Teachings of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī: Economics of Happiness (2021), The Making of Islamic Economic Thought (2022), and Islam in ljubezen [Islam and Love] (2023), a co-editor of Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es in the Middle East and North Africa (2021), and translator to Slovenian of Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān (2016) and Ibn Baṭṭūta’s Riḥla (2017)."

Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors



1 Introduction

 Sami Al-Daghistani



Part1 Premodern Islamic Environmental and Economic Thought



2 On Tazkiya and Zakāt al-Nafs: Decolonizing Modern Economic and Environmental Thought

 Sami Al-Daghistani



3 Islamic Environmental Economics and Sciences of Nature

 Waleed El-Ansary



4 A Neglected Notion: Classical Iqtiṣād and Contemporary Debates

 Katharina Ivanyi



Part2 Modern Discourses on Water, Ecology, and Climate Change



5 Islamic Resources for Water Conservation and Management

 Natana Delong-Bas



6 Borrowing against the Future: Is Ecological Usury Changing the Climate?

 Sarah Robinson



7 Senegalese Responses to Climate Change: An Ethical Analysis

 Jonathan Brockopp



Index