Review: Signs on the Earth: Islam, Modernity and the Climate Crisis

Richard Foltz Concordia University, Montréal Richard.foltz@concordia.ca The global environmental crisis disproportionately affects Muslims, insofar as its effects are more severely felt in the developing world and fall harder upon the poor than upon the rich. And yet, the issue has received little attention from contemporary Muslim thinkers and activists worldwide, preoccupied with ‘more pressing’ issues. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a Muslim philosopher who spent most of his career in the United States, was among the first … Continue reading Review: Signs on the Earth: Islam, Modernity and the Climate Crisis