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	International Mother Earth Day 2013
	By: The Editorial Board, Sun 21 April, 2013
	International Mother Earth Day
	Importance of Culture in Ecological Dialogue
	By: Salim T. S. Al-Hassani, Sun 21 April, 2013
	Prof. Salim T. S. Al-Hassani Professor Al-Hassani addressed in a keynote lecture the 16th Eurasian Economic Summit organised in Istanbul on 10-11 April 2013. His speech in a session on the "Importance of Culture in Ecological Dialogue" was entitled "A Holistic World Systemic Model for Government Decision Makers". We present hereafter the text of this lecture with illustrations.
	Ecology in Islamic Culture: A Selected Critical Bibliography
	By: FSTC Research Team, Fri 16 November, 2012
	FSTC Research Team The studies on the Islamic view of environment protection and the links between Islamic classical culture and ecology knew recently a notable progress, testified by numerous valuable publications in various languages. The following is a critical bibliography, organised alphabetically, that we conceived of as a guide for the interested reader. It includes references to works published recently in different languages, including Arabic. The publications in Arabic are particularly valuable, as they are hardly known by Western scholars, although some of them deserve to be known.
	1000 Years Amnesia: Environment Tradition in Muslim Heritage
	By: by Prof. Salim T S Al-Hassani, Thu 10 September, 2009
	Prof. Salim T S Al-Hassani In a seminar organised by the Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies in 11 January 2005, aimed at brain-storming the topic of Islam and the Environment, Professor Al-Hassani presented a short overview on the environment issue in Islam as seen from its sources and from history of Muslim practice over a 1000 years of planning and management of natural resources. The following article expands on earlier lectures and contributions made by Professor Al-Hassani including his participation in the conference "Islam and the Environment: Muslim 7 Year Action Plan to deal with Climate Change" held in Istanbul 6-7 July 2009.
	Environment and the Muslim Heritage
	By: Sir Crispin Tickell, Sat 08 August, 2009
	Sir Crispin Tickell The following short article is based on the notes for a speech presented to the Muslim Heritage Awareness Group held at the Royal Society in London, 14 July 2009. The MHAG is a consulting network to the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC). The theme for this meeting was Environment and Muslim Heritage. The notes were published on Sir Crispin Tickell website.
	Knowledge versus Natural Disasters from Arabic Sources
	By: FSTC Limited, Wed 21 May, 2008
	The aim of this paper is to investigate the various aspects of preparedness and response to natural disasters in the Arabic speaking lands during the 15th and 16th centuries, with comparison to earlier writings. Two natural disasters are focused upon: earthquakes and typhoons. Relying on specialised literary sources dedicated to these matters, the author draws also on jurisprudence opinions and decrees to describe the variety with which disasters were perceived and the different means with which they were prevented in Islamic civilisations.
	Ecology in Muslim Heritage: Treatises on Environmental Pollution up to the End of 13th Cen.
	By: FSTC Limited, Wed 30 April, 2008
	Several Arabic treatises dating from the 9th through the 13th century deal with environmental pollution. They cover subjects like air and water contamination, solid waste mishandling and environmental assessments of certain localities. The authors of these texts are well known scholars and physicians: al-Kindi, Qusta b. Luqa, al-Razi, Ibn al-Jazzar, al-Tamimi, Abu Sahl al-Masihi, Ibn Sina, Ali b. Ridhwan, Ibn Jumay‘, Ya‘qub al-Isra' ili, Abdullatif al-Baghdadi, Ibn al-Quff and Ibn al-Nafis. The article surveys this important corpus of environmental ecology and summarizes its contents.
	Ecology in Muslim Heritage: A History of the Hima Conservation System
	By: FSTC Limited, Tue 15 April, 2008
	A hima is a reserved pasture, where trees and grazing lands are protected from indiscriminate harvest on a temporary or permanent basis. It existed in the Middle East before Islam; but it was treated as a private reserve for powerful chieftains. This institution knew a renaissance in the last decades, when major political, economical and social changes took place in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula. The paper reviews the changes that have taken place in Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen with regard to the hima.
	Contribution of Ibn Sina to the development of Earth Sciences
	By: Dr. Munim M. Al-Rawi , Mon 09 December, 2002
	Ibn Sina, better known in the West as Avicenna, has a leading contribution in his famous Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and Natural Sciences "Kitab AI-Shifa" presenting principles that inspired scholars like Leonardo Da Vinci.