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Author Moumtaz, Nada, 1978- author.

Title God's property : Islam, charity, and the modern state / Nada Moumtaz
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Islamic Humanities ; 3
Islamic Humanities ; 3.
Contents Waqf, a non-definition -- State, law, and the "Muslim community" -- The intent of charity -- Charity and the family -- The "Waqf's benefit" and public benefit
Summary "Up to the twentieth century, Islamic charitable endowments provided the material foundation of the Muslim world. In Lebanon, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the imposition of French colonial rule, many of these endowments reverted to private property circulating in the marketplace. In contemporary Beirut, however, charitable endowments have resurged as mosques, Islamic centers, and non-profit organizations. A historical anthropology in dialogue with Islamic law, God's Property demonstrates how these endowments have been drawn into secular logics-no longer the property of God but of the Muslim community-and shaped by the modern state and modern understandings of charity and property. Although these transformations produced new kinds of loyalties and new ways of being in society, Moumtaz's ethnography reveals the furtive persistence of endowment practices that perpetuate older ways of thinking of one's self and one's responsibilities toward family and state"-- Provided by publisher
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Notes In English
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Subject Waqf -- Lebanon
Endowments -- Lebanon
Islam -- Charities.
Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law) -- Lebanon
Charity laws and legislation -- Lebanon
RELIGION / Islam / History
Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law)
Charity laws and legislation
Endowments
Islam -- Charities
Waqf
Lebanon
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020027439
ISBN 0520975782
9780520975781