Islamic charities and Islamic humanism in troubled times
This book is the fruit of twenty years' reflection on Islamic charities, both practically and as a key to understand the crisis in contemporary Islam. On the one hand Islam is undervalued as a moral and political force whose admirable qualities are epitomised in its strong tradition of charitable giving. On the other hand, it suffers from a crisis of authority that cannot be blamed entirely on the history of colonialism and stigmatisation to which Muslims have undoubtedly been subjected - most recently, as a result of the War on Terror.The book consists of seventeen previously published chapters, with a general introduction and new prefatory…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78499-789-2
- EAN: 9781784997892
- Produktnummer: 32341302
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'036 KB
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Jonathan Benthall is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University College London
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