God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.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...

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Autore principale: Moumtaz, Nada (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Libro
Lingua:Inglese
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA University of California Press [2022]
In: Islamic humanities (3)
Anno: 2022
Recensioni:[Rezension von: Moumtaz, Nada, God's property] (2023) (Siddiqui, Shariq A.)
Periodico/Rivista:Islamic humanities 3
(sequenze di) soggetti normati:B Beneficenza <motivo> / Fondazione / Fondazione islamica / Islam
Notazioni IxTheo:BJ Islam
KBL Medio Oriente
Altre parole chiave:B Endowments (Lebanon)
B Charity laws and legislation (Lebanon)
B Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law) (Lebanon)
B Islam / RELIGION / History
B Islam Charities
B Waqf (Lebanon)
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Riepilogo:A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.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
Descrizione fisica:1 Online-Ressource (283 p.)
ISBN:0520975782
Accesso:Open Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1525/9780520975781