عنوان

Islamic Law and Environmental Ethics:

LA129877

انگلیسی

Islamic Law and Environmental Ethics:

[Article]

How Jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh) Mobilizes Practical Reform

Willis Jenkins

Leiden

Brill

Where some religious environmentalisms deploy traditional concepts according to the practical needs of cosmology, usul al-fiqh (jurisprudence) envisions an alternative practical strategy for Islamic environmental ethics. Jurisprudence governs religious adaptations according to guiding principles designed to conform practical reason to the ongoing discovery of divine will. This article shows how those principles can function as mechanisms for normative change, and reviews their diagnostic capacity for evaluating various uses of Islamic resources. Where some religious environmentalisms deploy traditional concepts according to the practical needs of cosmology, usul al-fiqh (jurisprudence) envisions an alternative practical strategy for Islamic environmental ethics. Jurisprudence governs religious adaptations according to guiding principles designed to conform practical reason to the ongoing discovery of divine will. This article shows how those principles can function as mechanisms for normative change, and reviews their diagnostic capacity for evaluating various uses of Islamic resources.

2005

338-364

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

9/3

1568-5357

COSMOLOGY

ISLAM

JURISPRUDENCE

PRACTICAL REASON

Willis Jenkins

10.1163/156853505774841641

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[Article]

275578

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