Water crisis and security threats facing the Islamic world (With West Asian focus)

Climate change and its global impact on humanity's lives have impacted the security of individual and collective actors, especially in the West Asian Muslim region. In this passage, as the most critical issue of climate change, political, economic, social and environmental aspects pose actors with existential threats. Islamic countries in the West Asian region, as the center of the Islamic world, are exposed to the greatest threats from the water crisis and there is a possibility of a water war over this vital substance in the future. In this regard, the present paper seeks to examine the impact of the threat posed by the water crisis as the most important environmental hazard on the future security of Islamic countries in West Asia. In response, it is also worth noting that the water crisis has created and deepened existential security threats in both the socio-political and economic dimensions of the West Asian Islamic countries.