UK: World’s first Centre for Islam and Ecology announced
for Welsh University
Update: March, 2011
The Idea of
creating a centre for Islam & Ecology and its funding is
still in an early stage, but as of March 2011 it is
being reconsidered with some interest.
In a major new development, ARC and the
University of Wales, Lampeter, are founding a Centre for
Islam and Ecology at the University to further
theological and practical work by Muslim communities in
the UK and world–wide.
There is a pressing
need for such a centre. Islam has profound insights into
the nature of our relationship with Creation but many of
these are not well known even to Muslims themselves. The
joint project will produce theological and legal
handbooks, educational resources, will train Muslim
leaders in practical ecology, and seek to raise the
profile of Islamic action on the environment world wide.
It is a first in Islamic studies and is
viewed by ARC as a major new step in our working
relationship with the world’s second largest faith.
ARC is working in collaboration with the
Islamic scholar Dr. Mawil Izzi Dien, of the Centre of
Islamic Studies in the University of Wales, Lampeter,
author of a number of studies on Islam and ecology.
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