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Author Kayıkcı, Merve, author.

Title Islamic ethics and female volunteering : committing to society, committing to God / Merve Reyhan Kayikci
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series New Directions in Islam
New directions in Islam.
Contents Introduction -- 1. Getting Acquainted with the Volunteers -- 2. Caring is a Part of Believing and Why the Ethical is Relational -- 3. Reviving A Forgotten Tradition, Infaq -- 4. The Authority in Sisterhood -- 5. When Volunteering Touches the Experience of Time -- 6. The Adab of Da'wa -- 7. Transparency, Visibility and the Mahram -- 8. Conclusion: Further Thoughts on Volunteering -- Epilogue -- Glossary
Summary This book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of female Muslim volunteers in Belgium. Kayikci draws on a wealth of interview material that sheds light on the ethical turn in the anthropology of Islam, exploring how volunteering enables the space and time for Muslim women to commit to both orthodox religious and civic social values. As volunteering and interacting (caring) with the society requires careful deliberation of their society and their position as Muslims, and as women in that society, this research unpacks how multiple belongings of Muslim women in Belgium are negotiated, balanced, and influenced. This analysis reveals how the everyday is informed by different epistemological traditions; both the liberal and the Islamic, and how these traditions make the life-worlds of the women. Islamic Ethics and Female Volunteering will be of interest to academics across religious studies, anthropology, sociology, gender studies and community studies, especially scholars working in the areas of ethics, migration, Muslims in Europe, volunteering and activism
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 19, 2020)
Subject Women volunteers -- Religious life -- Belgium
Voluntarism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Voluntarism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Belgium
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030506643
3030506649