Abstract
There are ongoing armed conflicts across the globe that has caused devastating humanitarian consequences. These consequences include environmental degradation. Arguably, these armed conflicts are religious based, the religion that takes centre stage according to the actors of the conflict is Islam. With environmental degradation caused by these conflicts and Islam being at the centre of most of these conflicts, this paper seeks to analyze different sources of Islamic law and determine whether there are principles in these provisions that protect the environment in an armed conflict situation. Scattered in Quranic text in different chapters and also some ahadith of the prophet Muhammad (SAW), this paper examined and discussed some of these provisions and made a slight comparison between the said provisions and contemporary laws of armed conflict. This area lacked proper research and may be the reason for lack of implementation of the provisions, which circles back to the first issue that the conflicts cause the humanitarian disaster that is associated with environmental degradation. It is recommended that scholars should conduct more in depth research in the area as this might, not in totality, resolve the issue or at least get the conversation started on an issue that has become a major concern.
Maryam Idris Abdulkadi
pp. 34 – 51
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