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Confronting Climate Change and Fostering Islamic Economic Development Through Awqaf مواجهة تغير المناخ وتعزيز التنمية الاقتصادية الإسلامية من خلال الأوقاف

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  • Waleed El-Ansary

    (Helal, Hisham and Laila Edris El-Swedey University Chair in Islamic Studies, Xavier University, USA)

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The modern world’s ecological and economic crises result from its reductionist, mechanistic, and materialistic worldview. This study of Islamic economics – based on its metaphysical and cosmological sciences – reveals a path to economic justice and ecological equilibrium that requires recovering the Islamic intellectual heritage and establishing corresponding Islamic scientific, technological, economic, and other social structures for spiritually meaningful work and integral development; a role awqāf traditionally played in Islamic civilization that needs to be recovered today. This path, which was lost during the colonial period, requires integrating the findings of modern science into higher orders of knowledge, allowing man to live in harmony with himself, his community, and nature. This achieves both “vertical” and “horizontal” equilibrium, the intersection of which symbolizes the integration of all of life around a sacred center. This can also increase the number and vitality of contemporary awqāf, which Syed Khalid Rashid so rightly calls for in his lead article (Rashid, 2018). إن الأزمات البيئية والاقتصادية العالمية الحديثة ناتجة عن النظرة العالمية المادية والميكانيكية الضيقة. تكشف هذه الدراسة المبنية على أسس ومبادئ الاقتصاد الإسلامي الطريق إلى تحقيق العدالة الاقتصادية والتوازن البيئي. وقد أبانت الدراسة أن هذا البناء يتطلب استعادة التراث الفكري الإسلامي وإنشاء هياكل إسلامية علمية وتكنولوجية واقتصادية وهياكل اجتماعية أخرى ذات علاقة بالعمل الروحي ذي المغزى والتنمية المتكاملة؛ وهو دور لعبته الأوقاف في الحضارة الإسلامية في الماضي والتي نحتاج إلى استعادته اليوم. يتطلب هذا المسار، الذي ضاع خلال الفترة الاستعمارية، دمج نتائج العلوم الحديثة في نظم معرفية أعلى تسمح للإنسان بالعيش في انسجام مع نفسه ومجتمعه وطبيعته. ويحقق ذلك التوازن "العمودي" و "الأفقي"، الذي يرمز تقاطعه إلى تكامل الحياة كلها حول مركز مقدس. إن إعادة إضفاء الطابع التاريخي على عمليات العمل والإنتاج، التي ضاعت خلال الفترة الاستعمارية، يمكن أن تزيد أيضاً من عدد وحيوية الأوقاف المعاصرة؛ حيث تلعب هذه المؤسسة مرة أخرى الدور المحوري الذي قامت به في الحضارة الإسلامية في السابق، وهو الأمر الذي يدعو إليه سيد خالد رشيد في مقالته الرئيسة في هذا الركن.

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  • Waleed El-Ansary, 2018. "Confronting Climate Change and Fostering Islamic Economic Development Through Awqaf مواجهة تغير المناخ وتعزيز التنمية الاقتصادية الإسلامية من خلال الأوقاف," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 31(2), pages 79-90, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:31:y:2018:i:2:no:6:p:79-90
    DOI: 10.4197/Islec.31-2.6
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