Maqasid Al-Shariah and Sustainable Development (FutureLearn)

On this three-week course, you’ll explore this link and evaluate the relationship between Islam and global issues including land, water, wildlife, and forest conservation.

Delve into environmental management and challenges

As you uncover different scientific and theological standpoints, you’ll examine environmental challenges to determine the broad-ranging causes and effects.

You’ll also be exposed to fundamental concepts that will be used to examine environmental challenges, such as, the benefit-risk concept (maslahah-mafsadah), the priority (awlawiyyat) and moderation (wasatiyyah) principle in environmental management.

Explore how Maqasid Al-Shariah can protect environmental sustainability

Both concepts, sustainability and Shariah, set their own goals and objectives, known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Maqasid Al-Shariah (MS).

You’ll explore how both of these targets are critical as key indicators of human survival and environmental sustainability.

Learn from the expert at Universiti Malaya

Throughout the course, you’ll learn from Dr. Istajib, the only lecturer who has an interdisciplinary academic and research background in shariah, law, and the environment.

By the end of this course, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to implement sustainability in your workplace and everyday life.

Learning on this course

You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for anyone interested in Islamic studies and environmental science.

You could be a postgraduate, a religious leader, researcher, activist, or employee in an environment-related field.