Interdisciplinary research isn't a process of linear transfer. You can't say, 'Well, here I've done my work in siesmology' and hand it to the theologian and say, 'Will you make something sensible out of this from your perspective?' Things have to be conceived and executed at the nexus between the two disciplines. You have to start at the very beginning and frame the problem in a way that is valuable to both at once.
John Mutter, Professor of Earth and Environmental Studies and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
-Quoted as the epigraph in the Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Volume 63: 1&2
[Stumbled upon this just now at the NYU library on the 3rd floor collection of periodicals. It has a 19 page article called "Islamic Environmental Stewardship: Nature and Science in the Light of Islamic Philosophy" by Munjed M. Murad.
Apparently, you can read the entire review here]
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