Muslim Climate Futures
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About the project
Muslim Climate Futures explores transnational imaginations of/beyond climate crisis shaped by local and global Islamic frameworks of thought and action. It will explore a broad range of themes connected to Muslims and climate change, including science, care, creativity, fiction and art, abolition and community building.
There are three key research questions:
- Looking beyond the most frequently-cited textual sources of ahadith, what other localised and geographically contingent stories of Islam?
- What cross-cuts and connects the diverse stories that this project will feature - in other words, what is “Muslim” about “Muslim climate futures”?
- While narratives of Muslim approaches to climate change often invoke the past, what futures are coming into being through Muslim creativity, imagination and labour?
Musnad Aḥmad 12902“Even if the Resurrection were established upon one of you while he has in his hand a sapling, let him plant it.”
Contact
We are looking for collaborators for this research.
If you run a project that helps tackle climate change please get in touch to:
muslimclimatefutures@anthro.ox.ac.uk
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Saḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 2320, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1553“No Muslim plants a tree or sows a seed and then a bird, or a human, or an animal eats from it but that it is charity for him.”