God's property: Islam, charity, and the modern state

"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...

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Main Author: Moumtaz, Nada (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oakland, California University of Californiarnia Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
Reviews:[Rezension von: Moumtaz, Nada, God's property] (2023) (Siddiqui, Shariq A.)
Series/Journal:Islamic Humanities 3
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Charitable works / Foundation / Islamic foundation / Islam
IxTheo Classification:BJ Islam
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B Endowments (Lebanon)
B Charity laws and legislation
B Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law)
B Islam - Charities
B Islam Charities
B Endowments
B Lebanon
B Waqf - Liban
B Charity laws and legislation (Lebanon)
B Waqf
B Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law) (Lebanon)
B Fondations (Droit islamique) - Liban
B Islam / RELIGION / History
B Waqf (Lebanon)
B Fondations - Liban
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Moumtaz, Nada, 1978-: God's property. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]. - 9780520345874
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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 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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:0520975782