Animals as Intentional Political Agents and God’s Warriors in Sign-Themed Qurʾānic Narratives

Taking its cue from the Islamic Ecological Paradigm, deeply rooted in Islamic religious traditions, which emerged more than 1400 years ago, this paper reimagines the human-nonhuman relationship against the backdrop of the arguably assumed superiority of mankind in (Islamic) theological discourses. U...

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Authors: Kanwal, Aroosa 1974- (Author) ; Mansoor, Asma (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Worldviews
Year: 2024, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 125-142
Further subjects:B Animals
B intentional political agency
B vicegerency
B disanthropocentrism
B Islamic Ecological Paradigm
B Qurʾānic narratives
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