Islam and ecology : a bestowed trust / edited by Richard C. Foltz, Frederick M. Denny and Azizan Baharuddin. - Cambridge, Mass. : Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School :;Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2003. - xliii, 584 p. : ill. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-547) and index.

Summary: "The environmental crisis falls hardest upon the world's poor, a disproportionate number of whom are Muslims. Islam contains a strong message of social justice, which challenges many of the environmentally destructive development models current

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Human ecology;Nature;Environmental protection;Environmentalism--Religious aspects;Islam.;Religious aspects;Islam.;Religious aspects;Islam.;Religious aspects;Islam.

297.27 / ISL 2003.