Spirituality and sustainability: some deliberations from Islamic perspective in Islamic finance and sustainable development - balancing spirituality, values and profit.

Hassan, Mohd. Kamal and Hassan @ Mohamed, Nor Jana and Zamri, Zahid (2025) Spirituality and sustainability: some deliberations from Islamic perspective in Islamic finance and sustainable development - balancing spirituality, values and profit. In: Islamic Finance and Sustainable Development: Balancing Spirituality, Values and Profit. Islamic Business and Finance Series . Routledge, Oxon and New York, pp. 28-47. ISBN 978-1-032-80382-1 (hbk) , 978-1-032-82673-8 (pbk)

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Abstract

Islamic reformist and Islamic renewal of thought movements in the Muslim world have been concerned with the meanings and implications of modern ideologies and concepts such as capitalism, “socialism,” “progress,” “development,” “modernisation,” and secularisation, especially in the latter part of the last century. These ideologies were being promoted, pushed, and advocated by post-independence nationalist powerholders and secularised Muslim elites and intellectuals. Then, at the turn of the present century, Islamic reformist thought expanded and developed further the intellectual discourse on Islamic economics and finance and integrated holistic human and societal development based on the concept of holistic Islamic education, culture, and civilisation. Nearly all of the Muslim countries, Malaysia included, have endorsed the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN in 2015 (Foyasal Khan, 2020). Overall, it has generated positive responses from Muslim institutions and intellectuals, notwithstanding their reservations concerning the underlying metaphysical assumptions in addition to a few particular points. SDG number five, for instance, relates to “Gender Equality.” Regarding this, many Muslim intellectuals and scholars would rather use the terms “Gender Justice,” “Gender Equity,” and “Women Empowerment,” for example, considering the situation where women have been denied the recognition, honour, and rights they rightfully deserve, and their oppressions by their male counterparts in societies – Muslim and non-Muslim – something that all true Muslim scholars are opposed to. It must be underscored that equality and justice are not the same in meanings and contexts. This chapter defines sustainable development and sustainability from the viewpoint of Islamic thought.

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Additional Information:	The chapter has been co-written with Professor Emeritus Dr. Mohd. Kamal Hassan posthumously. The co-authors have expanded and completed the construction of the chapter based on the late professor's notes and talk delivered during the International Webinar on Islamic Thought and Sustainable Development, January 14th, 2021, organised by ISTAC-IIUM.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	SDGs, Sustainable development, sustainability, Islamic thought, spirituality, stewardship.
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion BPC Science and Technology in Islam BPC Science and Technology in Islam > BPC175 Islam and engineering. Sustainable engineering. Sustainable building BPK Islamic law. Shari'ah. Fiqh BPL Islamic education > BPL27 Aims and objectives of education. Sustainable education
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Political Science
Depositing User:	Dr. Nur Jannah / N.J. Hassan
Date Deposited:	13 Jan 2025 09:53
Last Modified:	28 Apr 2025 11:30
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/117648

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