Manchester University Press
Introduction
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Jonathan Benthall
Abstract
The Introduction summarizes the book’s content under the following headings. Since all the chapters have been previously published elsewhere, it also adds some complementary material to bring the book up to date on some important topics:
Part One: Chapters 1 to 9: Islamic charities, Summary of the Chapters, Some recurrent themes, Faith Based Organizations and "cultural sensitivity", Islamic Relief Worldwide, The West Bank zakat committees, Banking problems, Towards a more complete description, Pakistan, Turkey, Domestic Islamic charity in the United Kingdom, A zakat movement?, Towards a more comparative approach,
Part Two: Chapters 10 to 17: Islamic humanism
Abstract
The Introduction summarizes the book’s content under the following headings. Since all the chapters have been previously published elsewhere, it also adds some complementary material to bring the book up to date on some important topics:
Part One: Chapters 1 to 9: Islamic charities, Summary of the Chapters, Some recurrent themes, Faith Based Organizations and "cultural sensitivity", Islamic Relief Worldwide, The West Bank zakat committees, Banking problems, Towards a more complete description, Pakistan, Turkey, Domestic Islamic charity in the United Kingdom, A zakat movement?, Towards a more comparative approach,
Part Two: Chapters 10 to 17: Islamic humanism
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i 1
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- A note on omissions and transliteration xi
- Introduction 1
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Part I Islamic charities
- 1 Islamic charities, Faith Based Organizations and the international aid system 27
- 2 Islamic aid in a North Malian enclave 38
- 3 Have Islamic aid agencies a privileged relationship in majority Muslim areas? 46
- 4 The Palestinian zakat committees 1993–2007 and their contested interpretations 57
- 5 The Islamic Charities Project (formerly Montreux Initiative) 81
- 6 An unholy tangle 99
- 7 The Tariq Ramadan visa case 108
- 8 Islamic philanthropy in Indonesia 112
- 9 Puripetal force in the charitable field 115
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Part II Islamic humanism
- 10 Confessional cousins and the rest 137
- 11 Religious persecution and conflict in the twenty-first century 151
- 12 What makes Islam unique? 157
- 13 Tariq Ramadan 164
- 14 Mona Siddiqui 171
- 15 Akbar Ahmed 176
- 16 Yusuf al-Qaradawi 180
- 17 Religion and violence 185
- Afterword 192
- References 195
- Index 210
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i 1
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- A note on omissions and transliteration xi
- Introduction 1
-
Part I Islamic charities
- 1 Islamic charities, Faith Based Organizations and the international aid system 27
- 2 Islamic aid in a North Malian enclave 38
- 3 Have Islamic aid agencies a privileged relationship in majority Muslim areas? 46
- 4 The Palestinian zakat committees 1993–2007 and their contested interpretations 57
- 5 The Islamic Charities Project (formerly Montreux Initiative) 81
- 6 An unholy tangle 99
- 7 The Tariq Ramadan visa case 108
- 8 Islamic philanthropy in Indonesia 112
- 9 Puripetal force in the charitable field 115
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Part II Islamic humanism
- 10 Confessional cousins and the rest 137
- 11 Religious persecution and conflict in the twenty-first century 151
- 12 What makes Islam unique? 157
- 13 Tariq Ramadan 164
- 14 Mona Siddiqui 171
- 15 Akbar Ahmed 176
- 16 Yusuf al-Qaradawi 180
- 17 Religion and violence 185
- Afterword 192
- References 195
- Index 210
