<![CDATA[The global ecological crisis in the Anthropocene has intensified attention to the Qur’ānic concept of fasād fī al-arḍ as a foundation for environmental ethics. This study aims to analyze the transformation of the interpretation of fasād across classical and contemporary exegetical traditions and to reconstruct its ecological meaning through ecological hermeneutics. This qualitative study employs a comparative textual analysis of selected Qur’ānic verses concerning fasād, khalīfah, mīzān, and amānah. This qualitative study employs comparative textual analysis of selected Qur’ānic verses concerning fasād, khalīfah, mīzān, and amānah, drawing on a corpus comprising classical tafsīr, modern-contemporary tafsīr, and a complementary work of Islamic environmental thought. Data were analyzed through thematic (mawḍū’ī) Qur’ānic exegesis, comparative tafsīr analysis, and thematic coding. The findings show that classical tafsīr primarily understands fasād as moral and cosmic disorder resulting from human disobedience, whereas contemporary interpretations expand it to encompass structural and ecological consequences of human activities. This study reconstructs fasād as an ecological diagnostic category for identifying human-induced ecological disruption and proposes an integrated Islamic environmental ethics framework based on the interconnected concepts of fasād, khalīfah, mīzān, and amānah. This framework contributes a Qur’ānic theological foundation for ecological responsibility and sustainable environmental governance in the Anthropocene.]]>
Copyrights © 2026
