God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State
Material type: TextSeries: Islamic Humanities ; 3.Publisher: Oakland: University of California Press, 2021Description: xiii, 286 p., 24 cmSubject(s):Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) Library Main Library - 0.01 | B 1545 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | B 1545 |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Waqf, a non-definition -- State, law, and the "Muslim community" -- The intent of charity -- Charity and the family -- The "Waqf's benefit" and public benefit.
"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 resurged as mosques, Islamic centers, and non-profit 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 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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