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Sustainable Development from an Islamic Perspective: Meaning, Implications and Policy Concerns التنمية المستدامة من منظور إسلامي : المفهوم والنتائج

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  • Zubair Hasan

    (International Islamic University of Malaysia, Malaysia)

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This paper examines the debate on the meaning of sustainable development and the policy implications of different approaches from an Islamic perspective. It integrates mainstream and Islamic positions on the subject and argues that to whatever definition of sustainable development one might subscribe, eventually, each ends in an environmental concern. This paper attempts to show that the continuous increase in output of goods and services worldwide imposes a trade off between material prosperity on the one hand and pollution poisoning of human beings on the other. It engages in the intensifying debate about how the benefits of the former and the negative impact of the latter could be more evenly distributed. The paper takes inspiration from the maqasid (objectives) of the Shari’ah and verses of the holy Qur’an that indicate a way out of this impasse. It holds that the worldview differences of secularism and Islam are the basic reason of divergence between their approaches to development. It argues that the Islamic approach is more agreeable to environmental protection and concludes that issues surrounding sustainable development have moral, ethical, social, and political complexities and that economics or economists alone cannot resolve the problem. يتناول الباحث الجدل القائم حول معنى التنمية المستدامة ومدلولات ذلك على السياسة المتعلقة بالتنمية من وجهة نظر اسلامية ، وذلك من خلال مزج المواقف التقليدية والاسلامية، ويصل الى أنه مهما يكن التعريف المستخدم للتنمية المستدامة فان الهاجس البيئي يظل طاغيا على نتائج المناقشات. ويحاول الباحث تدعيم المقولة بأن الزيادة المطردة في إنتاج السلع والخدمات في العالم ينتج عنها ضرورة الاختيار بين الرفاهية المادية وتعريض البشر للتلوث البيئي ، بل إن الباحث ينغمس أكثر في الجدل المتنامي حول ما إذا كان من الممكن تحقيق توزيع متساوي بين الفوائد الايجابية من الرفاهية المادية والتأثيراتالسلبية للتلوث البيئي. يستند الباحث الى مقاصد الشريعة والآيات القرآنية لحل هذه المعضلة ، حيث ان جوهر الخلاف بين العلمانية والاسلام يقف خلف تعارض الموقفين من التنمية. ومن هذا المنطلق فإن موقف الاسلام يبدو أكثر قربا من حماية البيئة. ويخلص الباحث إلى أن تعقيدات القضايا المتعلقة بالتنمية المستدامة، الأخلاقية والاجتماعية والسياسية، أكبر من أن يفلح الاقتصاديون بمفردهم في حلها.

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  • Zubair Hasan, 2006. "Sustainable Development from an Islamic Perspective: Meaning, Implications and Policy Concerns التنمية المستدامة من منظور إسلامي : المفهوم والنتائج," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 19(1), pages 3-18, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:19:y:2006:i:1:no:1:p:3-18
    DOI: 10.4197/islec.19-1.1
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