Environment and Sustainable Development in the Islamic Intellectual Heritage in Light of What Al-Tha’alabi Discussed in his Book The Orphan of Time and the Merits of the People of the Age.

Abstract

   Through selected poems in his book entitled (The Orphan), Al-Tha'alabi discusses the effects resulting from climates, such as earthquakes, floods, storms, and fires. Repeated climates and wars result in serious environmental damage, due to the presence of large numbers of dead people, so corpses remain for long days in the streets and homes, and what is reflected in the effect. Health and environmental impacts on the economic and trade recession, the emergence of famine and poverty, and the spread of theft, robbery and plundering.

      In our study of poetry, we noticed the presence of cultural manifestations that indicate progress in that era, using different methods and methods to confront high or low temperatures, using spaces in building houses, methods of building houses, large courtyards, ceiling heights, windows, chimneys, heaters, fans, bathrooms, the use of inscriptions, and how to confront cold waves and snow using koans. Fire and heating means.

     The book (The Orphan of Time and the Virtues of the People of the Age) shows us the use of advanced modern methods at that time to water crops, such as waterwheels, dams, canals, and the use of water meters to measure the height of river levels.

     We find that the environment is embraced by poets at times and constitutes the source of their inspiration, so it becomes their rhymes and the music of their letters, and their poems sing with the birds and are colored with the colors of flowers, and at other times the poems turn into thunder, lightning, earthquakes, and wars, But they are regions that unite under the tent of Al-Thaalabi, the dreamer of a region extending from the East to the West, to draw a new map in which a sun that never sets will shine in the land of Muslims.