Leveraging Muslim Legal Philosophy To Climate Science: An Opportunity Of Scientific Developments For Muslim World

Abstract

Scientific approach and developments have been, indeed, of paramount importance in any society, nation or civilization. Contemporary global order cannot be sustained without the adoption of healthy scientific environment. Even though anthropogenic global climate change attributed to a great deal of disasters in every sphere of life and beyond, yet, environmental management or climate science have been developed the methodology to address the global climate change as well as sustainable development for all nations.

On the other hand, religious and revelational-entrenched societies and muslim academic world have its own profound system of legal philosophy (al maqasid al-shariah) that derives its authority from Islamic holy scriptures through inductive reason of rationalism. Muslim legal philosophy is based upon the concept of maslahah───the interest of mankind───that preserve five essentials of divine law: religion; life; reason; progeny and resources.

Muslim civilization has been carrying a theological enriched heritage of interest-based legal philosophy that only need a practical spark of leverage through engaging in the methodology of climate science.

In this article, it has been tried to connect the roads of two different approaches, in which muslim legal philosophy can be leveraged to methodology of climate science.