God's Property : Islam, Charity, and the Modern State / Nada Moumtaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moumtaz, Nada, 1978- author.

Series:

Islamic Humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2010

[s.l.] : University of California Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Up to the twentieth century, Islamic charitable endowments provided the material foundation of the Muslim world. In Lebanon, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the imposition of French colonial rule, many of these endowments reverted to private property circulating in the marketplace. In contemporary Beirut, however, charitable endowments have resurfaced as mosques, Islamic centers, and nonprofit organizations. A historical anthropology in dialogue with Islamic law, God's Property demonstrates how these endowments have been drawn into secular logics-no longer the property of God but of the Muslim community-and shaped by the modern state and modern understandings of charity and property. Although these transformations have produced new kinds of loyalties and new ways of being in society, Moumtaz's ethnography reveals the furtive persistence of endowment practices that perpetuate older ways of thinking of one's self and one's responsibilities toward family and state.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Datation

Introduction

Part I Architecture

1 Waqf, A Non-Definition

2 State, Law, and the “Muslim Community”

Part II Grammars

3 The Intent of Charity

4 Charity and the Family

5 The “Waqf’s Benefit” and Public Benefit

Conclusion

Appendix A Main Ottoman Mutūn, Commentaries, and Glosses of the Beirut Court

Appendix B ʿUmari Mosque Expenditures and Appointments

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520975781

0520975782

OCLC:

1312726618

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.100