environment & earth ethics

September 27, 2021

Transhumanism, Homo Rapiens & Modern Muslimness

This is another article where I attempt to address some themes and dilemmas of modern Muslimness. Like previous outings, this too is less a coherent article and more a cluster of thoughts or ruminations tied together by the theme of searching for Muslim authenticity in a post-modern, post-monotheistic age. ♦ Our primary legitimation for living Continue reading

contemporary concerns, environment & earth ethics, modernity & muslimness, short read, technology & social change

an Islamic response to the environmental catastrophe, Islam and economic degrowth, Islam and futurology, Islam and global climate change, Islamic critique of our current capitalist economy, Muslim inculturation, Muslim intellectual responses to modernity, Muslim theologians must be futurists, technology’s impact on religious faith, transhumanism and Islam
May 31, 2013

Islam’s Earth Ethics: Are We Healers or Corrupters?

The current state of our planet is one wherein there is huge imbalance and pollution; where the equilibrium of our Earth has been greatly corrupted. Armed conflicts and wars are increasing across the globe; the economies of an ever-increasing number of countries are in meltdown as global capitalism spirals out of control; and we continue Continue reading

activism, consider Islam, contemporary concerns, environment & earth ethics

corruption, ecology, environmental destruction, fasad, honouring the earth, islah, Islam and environmentalism, khalifahs of the earth, spreading corruption on earth, trustees of the earth

About Me

My name is Surkheel Sharif (aka Abu Aaliyah). Born and raised in London, England, I began my more formal, but gradual studies of the Islamic sciences around the late 1980s (just a few years after having quit my degree in Astrophysics). I also gained an MA in Islamic Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2009.

I’ve translated a few Islamic works from Arabic into English; one of them, a short text on Muslim spirituality, called The Exquisite Pearl (2000). I have also authored a few books, including: More Fish Please & the Earth’s Complaint (2011); Fussing Over the 15th of Sha’ban & the Golden Rule of Differing (2011); A Muslim’s Guide to Modernity (2025); and Salafism Reconsidered (forthcoming)

I am the founder and current Director of the Jawziyyah Institute (est. 1999): a non-profit organisation dedicated to cultivating an Islam true to its time-honoured tradition, relevant to its current context, and of benefit to wider society.

environment & earth ethics

Transhumanism, Homo Rapiens & Modern Muslimness

Islam’s Earth Ethics: Are We Healers or Corrupters?