Turkish Professor İbrahim Özdemir is a prominent Muslim environmentalist. He has been involved in the drafting of Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change  and in Al Mizan Project within the UN Environment Program. He has recently authored the excellent book Care for Creation; An Islamic Perspective  where he explains, in detail, how Islam is a “genetically environmentalist religion”. In his book (115 pages) there are almost...

Ibrahim Ozdemir, 02/06/2023 As usual, I talked with some of my nephews yesterday late afternoon. They told me they were concerned about my health and well-being when they learned of the severe cold on Friday and Saturday in MA. A few hours later, I was informed that an earthquake had hit Turkey and my hometown. On early Monday, the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that...

The forword to the last book published by Viverealtrimenti: Care for Creation; An Islamic Perspective, authored by Turkish Professor İbrahim Özdemir. The book is available both in paper and digital format.   «We are facing a global emergency. Our scientists tell us that human-induced climate change brought on by the burning of fossil fuels has taken the human race and our fellow species into the sixth mass extinction event of life on...

Britain’s then Prince Charles admires modern Islamic art pieces at the Qasr Al-Taz School for traditional arts in Cairo during his tour of the city on 21 March 2006 (AFP)   Author: Professor Ibrahim Ozdemir, Uskudar University, Director, Forum on Environmental Ethics ib60dmr@gmail.com   Plato’s dream came true after twenty-four centuries, and we finally have an environmental king or green king: Charles III. Plato, one of the...

  I had the honor and the pleasure of meeting Professor Özdemir in Bologna where he was participating to the G20 Interfaith Forum. We spent two lovely evenings together. Then he went back to Istanbul and I went back to my Italian home from where I had been missing since September 2020. But a beautiful friendship is born and now we are regularly in touch, looking forward to a future collaboration. Professor Özdemir is a very easy going...

One of the most thorough pieces of text, which focus on issues surrounding the environment recently written, is by Jeremy Rifkin, titled The Green New Deal, published in September 2019. It begins with an alarming warning: «We are facing a global emergency. Our scientists tell us that human-induced climate change brought on by the burning of fossil fuels has taken the human race and our fellow species into the sixth mass extinction event of...

Ibrahim Abdul Matin: a good networker and organiser   Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, a former sustainability policy advisor to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Outward Bound instructor, authored Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet in 2010. Few years later he co-founded Green Squash Consulting, a management consulting firm based in New York working with people, organizations, companies, coalitions and governments...

  The world is sweet and verdant, and verily Allah has made you stewards in it, and He sees how you acquit yourselves. Hadīth from Abū  Sa’īd Al-Khudrī   The relationship between Islam and ecology is, today, crucial. For two simple reasons: 1) we are living in what Ahmed Paul Keeler, of the University of Cambridge, defines as an age of crisis, a deeply critical phase in which the environment is particularly penalized; 2)...