Green is Graceful: Some Practical Lessons from the History of Islamic Science and Technology

If “Small is Beautiful” characterizes the system of “economics as if people mattered” envisaged by E. F. Schumacher in his visionary book Small is Beautiful, then “Green is Graceful” would characterize the system of “science and technology as if culture and nature mattered” nurtured throughout in the 1001-year history of Islamic science and technology.