Mawil Izzi Dien

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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]

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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]

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  1. ↑ Steve F. Sapontzis (2004). Food for Thought: The Debate Over Eating Meat. Prometheus Books. p. 207. ISBN   978-1-59102-118-6.
  2. ↑ Ouis, Soumaya Pernilla (2002-04-01). "The Environmental Dimensions of Islam". American Journal of Islam and Society. International Institute of Islamic Thought. 19 (2): 113–116. doi: 10.35632/ajis.v19i2.1945 . ISSN   2690-3741.
  3. ↑ "Dr. Mawil Izzi Dien - CILE". Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (in Latin). Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  4. 1 2 Foltz, Richard (2006). "Mawil Y. Izzi Dien". In Taylor, Bron (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Continuum. ISBN   9780199754670.
  5. ↑ Reviews of Environmental Dimensions of Islam:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Islamic Law: From Historical Foundations to Contemporary Practice:
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