Environmental challenges require diverse legal approaches. In this comprehensive handbook, global scholars examine the nexus of Islam and environmental law as a significant yet understudied framework for contemporary governance. Spanning fourteen centuries of legal development, Islamic environmental jurisprudence offers sophisticated approaches to stewardship, resource management, and climate policy. Chapters include detailed case studies of Pakistan's constitutional courts and Malaysia's environmental legislation, Gulf economic transitions, and water-governance innovations, all demonstrating how Islamic legal principles inform real-world environmental solutions. Each contribution provides a nuanced analysis of how traditional concepts adapt to contemporary contexts across diverse Muslim-majority nations. Timely and innovative, this handbook is an ideal resource for environmental law scholars, comparative legal researchers, policy analysts, and development practitioners working in multicultural contexts.
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Establishes Islamic law as a framework for practical alternatives for contemporary global environmental governance and climate justice.
Introduction Nadia Ahmad, Saba Kareemi, Oluwakemi Ayanleye and Erum
Sattar;
1. Islamic policy of environmental conservation 1,500 years old yet
thoroughly modern Mohamed Arafa;
2. Acknowledging environmental externalities
in Islamic legal critiques of corporate personhood Saba Kareemi;
3.
Reconciling Islamic ethics, fossil fuel dependence, and climate change in the
Middle East Saleem Ali;
4. Environmental stewardship in Islamic law:
principles, institutions, and ecological governance in the Muslim world
Mohammad Arafa;
5. Human dignity and environmental outcomes in Pakistan James
May and Erin Daly;
6. Oil and institutional stasis in the Persian Gulf Mehran
Kamrava;
7. Militarism, climate emissions and Islamic environmental ethics
Nadia Ahmad;
8. An overview of the classical Islamic coastal and marine
environmental law Hasan Khalilieh;
9. Property rights for landless
agricultural workers and the flexibility of Hanafi land law jurisprudence: a
solution for rural displacement? Erum Sattar;
10. A history of the Hima
conservation system Lutfallah Gari;
11. The right to water in Islamic thought
and manifestation in Islamic-Iranian cities Hooshmand Alizadeh and Golshan
Hemati;
12. Intellectual property and the protection of the environment in
Nigeria: lessons from Sharia Oluwakemi Ayanleye;
13. Implementing Islamic law
to protect the environment: insights from Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia
Shazny Ramlan;
14. Redefining Islamic 'good life:' environmental Maqasid in
the post-carbon world Wardah Alkatiri;
15. Islamic legal perspectives on
Genetically Modified Food (GMF) Anke Iman Bouzenita;
16. Shiekh Asim Farooq
vs. Federation of Pakistan Jawad Hassan;
17. Al-Meezan: a covenant for the
Earth brahim Özdemir;
18. Towards environmental sustainability: a reflection
on Islamic Epistemologies and models for sustainable development Nematullah
Azizi;
19. Arabic treatises on environmental pollution Lutfallah Gari;
20.
Islamic environmental law revisited as a sub-discipline of environmental
justice: empowering community-led compliance in Muslim countries Ridoan
Karim;
21. Animal rights in Islam Sarra Tlili;
22. Islamic finance and
environmental law Dalal Aassouli and Damilola S. Olawuyi;
23. Fossil
divestment / geoengineering Imam Saffet Abid Catovic;
24. The protection of
the basic natural resources and man under Islamic law: a new tool for
sustainable development and greening of the environment Mohamed Arafa;
25.
Faith based approaches to environmental law Nadia Ahmad;
26. Charting the
future of Islamic environmental law in an age of planetary crisis Nadia
Ahmad, Saba Kareemi, Oluwakemi Ayanleye and Erum Sattar.
Nadia B. Ahmad is a professor of law at Barry University and Ph.D. candidate at the Yale School of the Environment, where she served as a Kerry Fellow. Co-chair of the American Bar Association's Environmental Justice Task Force and co-author of Environmental Justice: Law, Policy, and Regulation, she specializes in energy siting, environmental protection and climate justice advocacy. Saba Kareemi is a Pakistani Canadian legal scholar and lawyer specializing in Islamic law, corporate law, and constitutional law. She has taught at the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines, Pakistan College of Law, and Westminster International University in Tashkent. She holds an LL.M. from the University of Toronto and LLB from the International Islamic University, Islamabad. Erum K. Sattar is a lecturer at Tufts University with degrees from Harvard Law School and the University of London and is a member of the bar of England and Wales and the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. Her interdisciplinary research examines the impact of water governance and trans-boundary water sharing on food production, livelihoods and migration requiring legal and institutional adaptation structures globally. Her scholarly articles and book chapters have appeared in leading academic publications. Oluwakemi A. Ayanleye is a law lecturer at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria, specializing in Islamic finance and sharia legal systems. She has published extensively on Islamic finance regulation, presented at Harvard Law School, and received TETFund research grants. Her interdisciplinary expertise spans Islamic law, intellectual property, and international trade law.
