Index

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i 1
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. A note on omissions and transliteration xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I Islamic charities
8. 1 Islamic charities, Faith Based Organizations and the international aid system 27
9. 2 Islamic aid in a North Malian enclave 38
10. 3 Have Islamic aid agencies a privileged relationship in majority Muslim areas? 46
11. 4 The Palestinian zakat committees 1993–2007 and their contested interpretations 57
12. 5 The Islamic Charities Project (formerly Montreux Initiative) 81
13. 6 An unholy tangle 99
14. 7 The Tariq Ramadan visa case 108
15. 8 Islamic philanthropy in Indonesia 112
16. 9 Puripetal force in the charitable field 115
17. Part II Islamic humanism
18. 10 Confessional cousins and the rest 137
19. 11 Religious persecution and conflict in the twenty-first century 151
20. 12 What makes Islam unique? 157
21. 13 Tariq Ramadan 164
22. 14 Mona Siddiqui 171
23. 15 Akbar Ahmed 176
24. 16 Yusuf al-Qaradawi 180
25. 17 Religion and violence 185
26. Afterword 192
27. References 195
28. Index 210