Signs on the Earth: Islam, Modernity and the Climate Crisis
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Publishing Details
Signs on the Earth: Islam, Modernity and the Climate Crisis
By (Author) Fazlun Khalid
Kube Publishing Ltd
Kube Publishing Ltd
14th May 2019
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Religion and science
Environmentalist thought and ideology
297.27
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 127mm, Height 195mm
Description
This book translates the environmental calamity on the horizon into the Muslim experience.
Not only does it call for action that will improve the environment it challenges religious leaders to act, demanding that they step up and face the most pressing issue of our time.
This work has the potential to transform a generation of Muslims. It is a call to action by the most respected activist on environmental issues in the West that will be impossible to ignore.
With numerous friends and followers in high places as one of the most influential Muslims on the planet, this book will be championed throughout the Muslim media and beyond.
Prepared as an accessible title, it is meant for the mass market.
By carefully exploring the drivers of global warming, and then adding material that defines a way forward for change amongst Muslims, this book will be not alienate non-Muslim readers, and we intend to actively promote it to environmental activists looking for new ways to reach people of faith with their message.
Author Bio
Fazlun Khalid is of Sri Lankan origin. He traces his ancestry to the Hadramut in Yemen and is a descendent of the intrepid sailors who pioneered the spice routes to the Far East in times gone by. Accompanied by a colleague of what was then known as the Ceylon Air Academy, he landed in New Haven on the south coast of England in 1953, from Dieppe in France. Fazlun Khalid has a worldwide reputation as an advocate of environmental protection rooted in religious traditions and is now recognised as one of fifteen leading eco-theologians in the world. He appeared on the Independent on Sunday list of the top 100 environmentalists in the UK in 2008 and is also listed amongst the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan. He founded the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IFEES) which is now established as the worlds leading Islamic environmental NGO.
