The Qur’ān and Arguments: An Examination of Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī’s Dialectical Theory in ‘Alam al-Jadhal fī ‘ilm al-Jadal
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The place of Muhammad Iqbal in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Iranian thought
Khamenei argues that Iqbal was scarcely studied before the Iranian revolution of 1979 in Iran; it was only the Islamic government of Iran that realised many of Iqbal’s principles and would then aim to spread Iqbal’s message across Iran through books, ‘paintings’, and musicians rendering his poems into ‘popular tunes’ to reveal the debt the Iranians owed to Iqbal.[1] This reading of Iqbal’s place in Iranian intellectual history evidently serves an ideological purpose; the veracity of its claim must be investigated by sketching the rise of Iranian interest in Iqbal against the backdrop of Iran’s political history.
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Arguing for Religious Values as the Foundation of Environmental Ethics – An Islamic Perspective
Osman Bakar. International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC) International Islamic University Malaysia. osmanbakar@iium.edu.my Received 07 February 2025 Published online 11 September 2025 Abstract This article argues for the adoption of religious values (al-qiyam al-dīniyya) as the theological-metaphysical foundation of environmental ethics (akhlāqiyya al-bī’a) in the light of the teachings of the Quran….
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Book Review, Sherman A. Jackson, The Islamic Secular
A critical review of Sherman A. Jackson’s The Islamic Secular (Oxford University Press, 2024), exploring his attempt to redefine the secular within Islamic thought and assessing the strengths and tensions of his ambitious framework.
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Arguing for Religious Values as the Foundation of Environmental Ethics – An Islamic Perspective
Osman Bakar, PhD
This article argues that Qur’anic religious values (al-qiyam al-dīniyya) form the essential theological and metaphysical basis of Islamic environmental ethics (akhlāqiyya al-bī’a). It highlights the broad meaning of al-bī’a, which includes both natural and built environments, and defines environmental ethics as the principles guiding how humans care for nature and shape their surroundings. Identifying religious values with tawḥīdic principles found in the Qur’an and the “Book of Nature,” the article shows how these values inform human attitudes and actions toward the environment. It emphasizes key ecological and moral principles, including nature’s multidimensional utility, and concludes that without spiritual and ethical motivation, humanity lacks compelling reasons to protect the natural world.
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