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Author:   Eckart Ehlers ,  Katajun Amirpur
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.725kg
ISBN:  

9789004444454

ISBN 10:   9004444459
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   28 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword Acknowledgements List of Figures, Maps, and Tables List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Mena Region: Climate, Culture, and Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa Eckart Ehlers and Katajun Amirpur Part 1: Ideas 1 And We Shall Save the Earth: Muslim Environmental Stewards Katajun Amirpur 2 Wonder, Gratitude, and Justice as Ingredients for a Jewish Eco-Theology Ephraim Meir Part 2: Past 3 Holocene Climate Variability of Mesopotamia and its Impact on the History of Civilisation Max Engel and Helmut Bruckner 4 Destructive Waters-Refreshing Waters: Ancient Near Eastern Aquatic Symbolism at the Dawn of History Rosel Pientka-Hinz 5 Deserts-Wind-Water: Strategies of Human Adaptations and Renewable Resources in Extremely Arid Environments. A Historical Retrospective Eckart Ehlers Part 3: Present 6 The Vanishing of Iran's Lake Urmia Matthias Schmidt 7 Water in the Middle East: Hotspots of Scarcity and Conflict Tobias von Lossow 8 Climate Change and the Emerging Information Societies in the Arab Region Kerstin Fritzsche Part 4: Prospects 9 DESERTEC: Europe-Middle East-North Africa Cooperation for Sustainable Energy Franz Trieb 10 Connecting Religion and the Environment in Islamic Education: Raising Awareness, Exploring Perspectives, and Defining Best Practice Ursula Kowanda-Yassin Bibliography Index

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Katajun Amirpur, Ph.D., born 1971, is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Cologne. She previously taught at the Universities of Hamburg and Zurich and has published numerous monographs and scholarly articles, including New Thinking in Islam. For many years she has worked as a freelance journalist for prestigious newspapers. Eckart Ehlers, Ph.D. (1938), University of Bonn/Germany, was Professor of Geography at Marburg and Bonn universities, former Secretary General of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and Chair of the German National Committee of Global Change Research. He has published several books and many articles on the Middle East and nature-society interrelationships.

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