Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎3030383083
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783030383084
• Author: Holger Weiss

This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The individual chapters discuss how traditional Muslim welfare and charity institutions, zakat (obligatory or mandatory almsgiving), sadaqa (voluntary almsgiving and donations) and waqf (pious endowments), are used to improve social welfare, focusing on instrumentalization and institutionalization in the collection and distribution of zakat. The book includes case studies from West Africa (Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal), the Horn of Africa (Somalia) and East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), highlighting the role and interplay of local, national and international Sunni, Shia and Ahmadiyya Muslim faith-based organizations and NGOs.

Table contents:

1. Muslim NGOs, Zakat and the Provision of Social Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Introduction
2. Who Do FBOs Speak For? The Conundrum of Representation
3. Reflections on Trust and Trust Making in the Work of Islamic Charities from the Gulf Region in Africa
4. Charity, ONG-Ization and Emergent Ethics of Volunteerism: The Case of Islamic NGOs in Côte d’Ivoire
5. Islamic NGOs in Somalia and Their Role in the Somali State-Building Process
6. Between Charity and Financing ‘Terror’: The Dilemma of Muslim Charitable Organizations in Kenya
7. ‘Enterprisation of Islamic FBOs’—Towards a New Typology of Islamic Non-governmental Organisations in Consideration of Their Multiple Relatedness
8. Transnational Networks and Global Shi‘i Islamic NGOs in Tanzania
9. Politics of Humanitarianism: The Ahmadiyya and the Provision of Social Welfare
10. Discourses on Zakat and Its Implementation in Contemporary Ghana

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