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Gulf charities and Islamic philanthropy in the "age of terror" and beyond / edited by Robert Lacey and Jonathan Benthall.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Charities--Political aspects--Middle East.
- Charities.
- Islam--Charities--Corrupt practices.
- Islam.
- Endowments--Political aspects--Middle East.
- Endowments.
- Terrorism--Middle East--Finance.
- Terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (413 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, [Germany] : Gerlach Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the "Age of Terror" and Beyond is the first book to be published on the charities of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf, covering their work both domestic and international.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Islamic Charities: Types and Contexts; 1 Sacralized or Secularized Aid? Positioning Gulf-based Muslim Charities; 2 Islamic Charities on a Fault Line: the Jordanian Case; 3 Gulf Charities in Africa; II. A Historical Case Study; 4 Charities and Politics in Arabia during the First Half of the20th Century: the al-Kafs of Hadhramaut in Comparative Perspective; III. Governmental Aid from GCC States; 5 The Gulf States as Multilateral Donors: The Special Case of theOPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)
- IV. Charities in Saudi Arabia Today6 Domestic, Religious, Civic? Notes on the InstitutionalizedCharitable Field in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 7 Saudi Arabia as a Global Humanitarian Donor; V. Legal Cases; 8 A Good Day to Bury a Bad Charity: Charting the Rise and Fall of theAl-Haramain Islamic Foundation; 9 The Impact of US Laws, Regulations, and Policies on Gulf Charities; VI. Regulation and Monitoring; 10 The Qatar Authority for Charitable Activities (QACA) fromCommencement to Dissolution (2005-2009); 11 The Islamic Charities Project (Formerly Montreux Initiative)
- VII. Madrasas in South Asia and Afghanistan12 The Madrasas of South Asia and their Implications for Gulf Charities; 13 Madrasas in South Asia: the Strategic Geopolitical Concern aboutGulf Charities; VIII. Charitable Activities Beyond Geopolitics; 14 Giving to Give, and Giving to Receive: the Construction ofCharity in Dubai; 15 Care, Redemption, and the Afterlife: Spiritual Experiences ofBathing Volunteers in a Charity Care Center in Iran; 16 Afterword: Capital, Migration, Intervention: Rethinking GulfIslamic Charities; Envoi "...and beyond"; About the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 3-940924-92-X
- OCLC:
- 906804097
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