Mawil Izzi Dien

Islamic scholar and ecotheologian

Mawil Y. Izzi Dien (born 1948, also known as Izzi Deen) is an Iraqi Islamic scholar and eminent Islamic ecotheologian.^[1]^[2] He is currently serving as a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in the UK, and a Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at Qatar University.^[3]

Biography

Mawil Izzi Dien was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1948. He studied Islamic law in Baghdad and at Manchester Universities. In 1983, when he was at the Faculty of Law at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Izzi Dien helped prepare the first contemporary declaration on conservation from an Islamic point of view. It was later published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in English, French, and Arabic. Izzi Dien served as an adviser to the Saudi government. During the 1980s, he helped construct the legal and philosophical framework for Meteorology and Environmental Protection Administration in Saudi Arabia.^[4]

As a consequence of being reproduced in various anthologies in the 1990s, Izzi Dien's 1990 article, "Islamic Environmental Ethics, Law and Society," came to be considered as reflecting the normative Islamic stance by many Western environmentalists. Izzi Dien stresses on the moral responsibilities that Islam places on humans in this article, concentrating on the key elements of Islam's classical legal tradition and their sources in the Qur'an and hadith that refer to the preservation and protection of natural resources. The article later received a book length treatment and was published in 2000 as Environmental Dimensions of Islam.^[4]

Works

The Theory and the Practice of Market Law in Medieval Islam: A Study of Kitāb Niṣāb Al-Iḥtisāb of ʻUmar B. Muḥammad Al-Sunāmī (1998)
Environmental Dimensions of Islam (2000)^[5]
Islamic Law: From Historical Foundations to Contemporary Practice (2004)^[6]
Islamic Theology in the Contemporary World: An Introduction (2014)

References

^ Steve F. Sapontzis (2004). Food for Thought: The Debate Over Eating Meat. Prometheus Books. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-59102-118-6.
^ Ouis, Soumaya Pernilla (2002-04-01). "The Environmental Dimensions of Islam". American Journal of Islam and Society. 19 (2). International Institute of Islamic Thought: 113–116. doi:10.35632/ajis.v19i2.1945. ISSN 2690-3741.
^ "Dr. Mawil Izzi Dien - CILE". Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (in Latin). Retrieved 2021-01-17.
^ ^a ^b Foltz, Richard (2006). "Mawil Y. Izzi Dien". In Taylor, Bron (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Continuum. ISBN 9780199754670.
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Reviews of Environmental Dimensions of Islam:
- Foltz, R. (2001). "Book Reviews: The Environmental Dimensions of Islam". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 69 (1). Oxford University Press (OUP): 241–244. doi:10.1093/jaarel/69.1.241. ISSN 0002-7189.
- Baker, Iljas (2003). "The Environmental Dimensions of Islam". The Environmentalist. 23 (1): 97–98. doi:10.1023/A:1022999711394. ISSN 0251-1088. S2CID 81678412.
- Haleem, H. A. (2001). "The Environmental Dimensions of Islam By Mawil Izzi Dien". Journal of Islamic Studies. 12 (2): 179–182. doi:10.1093/jis/12.2.179. ISSN 0955-2340.
- Ouis, Soumaya Pernilla (2002). "The Environmental Dimensions of Islam". American Journal of Islam and Society. 19 (2): 113–116. doi:10.35632/ajis.v19i2.1945. ISSN 2690-3741.
- Kula, Erhun (2001). "The Environmental Dimensions of Islam". Environmental Conservation. 28 (3): 284–293. doi:10.1017/S0376892901240302. ISSN 0376-8929. S2CID 85750358.
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Reviews of Islamic Law: From Historical Foundations to Contemporary Practice:
- Gleave, R. (2007). "Islamic Law: from Historical Foundation to Contemporary Practice". Journal of Semitic Studies. 52 (1): 171–173. doi:10.1093/jss/fgl057. ISSN 0022-4480.
- Rahman, Sayeed S. (2015). "Islamic Law: From Historical Foundations to Contemporary Practice". Journal of Law and Religion. 22 (1): 295–298. doi:10.1017/S0748081400003301. ISSN 0748-0814.