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Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World

Sami

CMES researcher Sami Al-Daghistani has recently published an edited volume on premodern and contemporary economic and environmental approaches in Islamic traditions.

Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill’s Themes in Islamic Studies Series, Volume 9, 2024.

The book is published in Open Access thanks to financial support from Lund University Library Fund, the Center for Theology and Religious Studies, and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University.

Read the book here.

About Sami Al-Daghistani

Sami is Associate Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Contemporary Islamic Studies at Lund University, an Associate Faculty Member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR) in New York City, and a Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute (MEI) at Columbia University in New York. His research is situated at the intersection of Islamic economics, environment, ethics, and law in Islamic intellectual history and in the contemporary period. His teaching and research are informed by an interdisciplinary approach and cross-cultural perspectives, whereby he uses historical and historiographical methods, as well as textual analysis in order to address relevant societal questions across the Muslim world.