| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover -- The Islamic Welfare State -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Note on Translations and Transliterations -- List of Abbreviations -- PART 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1 Islam and the Social Welfare Ideal -- Study of Muslim Charity -- Charitable Pakistan -- Exemplary Pakistan -- Methods of Inquiry -- Overview -- Observations and Inferences -- PART 2 PIETY AND PUBLIC GOODS -- 2 The Good of Government -- What Is the Good of Government? -- Thinking about Politics -- Everyday Security -- Learning from Pakistan |
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3 Social Welfare in a Muslim Society -- Accounting for the Unseen -- Islamic Charity -- Muslim Philanthropy -- Muslim Charity -- Zakat -- Mustahiqeen -- Infaq -- Awqaf -- Islamic Finance -- Islamic Healthcare -- Conclusion -- PART 3 PAKISTAN -- 4 Muslim Identities and Political Parties -- The Creation of Pakistan -- Islamic Foundation? -- Islam as Faith Itself -- Islamic Attributes and Identities -- Who Is a Muslim? -- Muslim Diversity in South Asia -- Repression of Muslims -- Modernist Muslims -- Deobandi and Barelvi Traditions -- 'Islamic' and 'Muslim' Political Parties |
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The All-India Muslim League -- Jamaat-i-Islami, Pakistan -- Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam -- Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan -- 5 Everyday Public Security and Insecurity -- Demographics -- Everyday Insecurity -- Insecurity and Government -- Insecurity by Military -- Public Education -- Public Health -- Government and Anti-Government Violence -- Conclusion -- PART 4 CHARITIES -- 6 Methods of Discovery -- Faith and Charity -- Research Techniques -- Surveys for Variable-Oriented Analysis -- Ethnography -- Research Biases -- Comparative Methods -- Getting Started -- 7 Traditional Islamic Charities |
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The Pakistani Langar -- Dargah-based Charity -- Dargah of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (Sehwan Sharif) -- Dargah of Data Ganj Bakhsh (Lahore) -- Dargah of Baba Farid Ganj Shakar (Pakpattan) -- Dargah of Hazrat Pir Mehr Ali Shah (Golra Sharif) -- Dargah of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (Bhit Shah) -- Hazrat Sultan Bahu Trust (Jhang) -- Dargah of Khwaja Ghulam Farid (Kot Mithan) -- Zakat and Qurbani in Pakistan -- Madaris -- Imam-based Charity and Madrasah-based Charity -- 8 Professional Islamic Charities -- Registration of Social Welfare Associations -- Pre-Partition Religious Charities -- Landlord Charity |
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Private Muslim Charity Since Independence -- Hamdard Pakistan and Healthy Living -- Pakistan Red Cross Society -- Family Welfare Cooperative Society -- Kawish Welfare Trust -- Abdul Sattar Edhi and the Edhi Foundation -- The Aman Foundation -- Aga Khan Development Network -- Adib Rizvi and the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation -- Abdul Bari Khan and the Indus Hospital -- Amjad Saqib and Akhuwat -- Ahsan Saleem and The Citizens Foundation -- Noreen Tahir and the Aagosh-e-Noorani Foundation -- Zahida Hameed Qureshi and the Society for Special Persons |
| Summary |
"The Islamic Welfare State explains the relationship between government legitimacy, everyday security, and lived Islam in Pakistan-a major Muslim-majority country. Its humanitarian spirit makes Islam a compelling, community-strengthening faith that motivates people to provide essential services to the needy, to foster moral sentiments that build social solidarity, and to thereby challenge the legitimacy of government with its focus on 'protecting Islam' and 'national security' rather than enhancing the lives of ordinary people. The book surveys four kinds of Islamic charities-traditional, professional, partisan, and state. The focus is on ground realities, on the activities of welfare workers and beneficiaries, mostly patients and students from low-income families. The attention to the different political sentiments that different kinds of charity foster allows us to better understand politics and political change in Pakistan and across the Muslim world"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 03, 2024) |
| Subject |
Welfare state -- Pakistan
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Islam and state -- Pakistan
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Islam and social problems -- Pakistan
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Economics -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Economics -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Islam and social problems.
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Islam and state.
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Social policy.
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Welfare state.
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Pakistan -- Social policy
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Pakistan.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023035313 |
| ISBN |
9781009268455 |
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1009268457 |
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