Weekly newsletter - Monday 14th of June 2010
Islam and the Environment – Lecture by HRH The
Prince of Wales, Oxford, 9th of June 2010 I was lucky to
get to see HRH The Prince of Wales last week, giving a lecture in
Oxford on Islam and the Environment. The lecture was really
inspiring, and the Prince of Wales talked about the loss of the
deep inner soul, that people in the West no longer believe in. And
this is what has caused environmental and financial crises. People
have been 'de-souled' by consumerism.
As the Prince of Wales said: In short, when we hear talk of an
environmental crisis or even of a financial crisis, I would suggest
that this is actually describing the outward consequences of a
deep, inner crisis of the soul. It is a crisis in our relationship
with - and our perception of - Nature, and it is born of Western
culture being dominated for at least two hundred years by a
mechanistic and reductionist approach to our scientific
understanding of the world around us.
More on the event
here.
The full text of the lecture will be available from the Oxford Centre for Islamic
Studies website
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