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X-WR-CALNAME: Islamic Environmental Ethics and Multispecies Responsibility 
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DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Progra
 m in Islamic Studies at Stanford Global Studies\n\n \n\nAre references to 
 religion in this time of climate crisis always cast in nostalgic or apocal
 yptic terms? This talk turns instead to everyday Islamic practices in Sout
 heast Asia\, asking how Muslims\, and non‑Muslims in Islamic Southeast A
 sian contexts\, have understood\, experienced\, and narrated their own tim
 es of ecological crisis\, resource extraction\, and rapid developmental ch
 ange. It focuses on Islamic environmental sciences and on narratives about
  communities’ relationships with environments and more‑than‑human be
 ings\, relationships marked by care and reverence as well as violence and 
 extraction. I consider how Islamic traditions in Southeast Asia have histo
 rically promoted both human‑centeredness and interspecies relatedness\, 
 and how these tensions have shaped environmental responses. In doing so\, 
 the paper asks how we might learn from Southeast Asian communities about e
 nvironmental and multispecies responsibility\, engaging their ethical gram
 mars and local knowledge\, while recognizing that Muslim communities—als
 o implicated in ongoing environmental destruction—are important producer
 s of concepts and practices for living responsibly with a damaged planet.\
 n\n \n\n\n\nTeren Sevea joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Resea
 rch Center (APARC) as visiting scholar and Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fel
 low on Southeast Asia for the winter quarter of 2026. He currently serves 
 as Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Har
 vard Divinity School.\n\nHe is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in 
 South and Southeast Asia\, and received his PhD in History from the Univer
 sity of California\, Los Angeles. Before joining HDS\, he served as Assist
 ant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sev
 ea is the author of Miracles and Material Life: Rice\, Ore\, Traps and Gun
 s in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press\, 2020)\, which received t
 he 2022 Harry J.Benda Prize\, awarded by the Association of Asian Studies.
  Sevea also co-edited Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and S
 outheast Asia (ISEAS\, 2009). He is currently completing his second book e
 ntitled Singapore Islam: The Prophet's Port and Sufism across the Oceans\,
  and is working on his third monograph\, provisionally entitled Animal Sai
 nts and Sinners: Lessons on Islam and Multispeciesism from the East.\n\nSe
 vea is the author of book chapters and journal articles pertaining to Indi
 an Ocean networks\, Sufi textual traditions\, Islamic erotology\, Islamic 
 third worldism\, and the socioeconomic significance of spirits\, that have
  been published in journals such as Third World Quarterly\, Modern Asian S
 tudies\, The Indian Economic and Social History Review and Journal of Sufi
  Studies. In addition to this\, he is a coordinator of a multimedia projec
 t entitled “The Lighthouses of God: Mapping Sanctity Across the Indian O
 cean\,” which investigates the evolving landscapes of Indian Ocean Islam
  through photography\, film\, and GIS technology.
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LOCATION:Encina Hall\, Philippines Conference Room\, 3rd Floor
SUMMARY: Islamic Environmental Ethics and Multispecies Responsibility in So
 utheast Asia
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/islamic-environmental-ethic
 s-and-multispecies-responsibility-in-southeast-asia-2797
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