Muslims and Political Participation in Great Britain, ed. Timothy Peace, (London and New York: Routledge, 2015) pp. 103-123. ‘Islamic’ Environmentalism in Great Britain Rosemary Hancock Introduction This chapter examines the involvement of Muslims in British civil society and contentious politics, through their participation in the environmental movement. The emergence of specifically Islamic environmental organizations has provided a platform from which Muslims resist and struggle to transform British society into a society reflective of their Islamic, and environmental, values. The environmental movement arose as a social movement engaged in resisting hegemonic ways of life and societal structures, including post-industrial capitalism, which caused multiple environmental crises and issues of social justice globally. Environmental organizations in Great Britain have historically been politically active, operating as organizers of collective action and as lobbyists for environmental policy change. It is noteworthy to see that many of the critiques, in particular those against the capitalist economic system, made by environmental organizations and activists are remarkably similar to those made by Muslims in Great Britain concerned with aligning a compassionate, religio-ethical worldview with the reality of life in a Western post-industrial nation. This chapter utilises Social Movement Theory (SMT) as an overarching framework. SM theorists have studied the environmental movement extensively and attention to Islamic movements has increased in last 10 years. Here I focus upon a movement that is both Islamic and environmental at the same time. Islamic Environmental Organizations (IEOs) and activists share in the language and codes of both Islamic religious movements and the broader environmental movement, and they express the desire for varying degrees of social-political change. The theoretical tools of SMT offer a new avenue of analysis for these organizations, offering the opportunity to find commonality between Islamic movements and secular movements. This chapter firstly explicates how SMT is a useful theoretical framework for understanding Muslim involvement in the environmental movement and contentious politics. Following this, I make a brief explanatory note on contemporary understands of religion and civil society; and a discussion of the Islamic discourse on environmentalism which informs Muslim responses to environmental crises. Finally, two case studies of British Islamic environmental organizations illuminate the participation of British Muslims in environmentalism and contentious politics. The Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IFEES) is an internationally recognized environmental organization; and Wisdom in Nature (WiN, formerly the London Islamic Network for the