Divine Money: Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine
()
About this ebook
Zakat giving or mutual aid is a sacred practice in Islam. Where government and public safety nets fail, zakat serves as a form of social security in Muslim communities. In Divine Money, Emanuel Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat donations function in contemporary Palestine.
Based on his ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Nablus, Schaeublin traces zakat flows as they provide critical support to households living under military rule and security surveillance. In the neighborhoods of Nablus, the Islamic tradition shapes public life. Many enact simple gifts of money of food as an expression of God's generosity and justice. How do such invocations of the divine enable people to negotiate responsibilities and tensions arising from differences in wealth in Palestinian society? What is the role of zakat in confronting political repression and economic instability?
Related to Divine Money
Related ebooks
Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiterary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJews, Race, and the Politics of Difference: The Case of Vladimir Jabotinsky against the Russian Empire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHuman Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTalkative Polity: Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGagged: Censorship in Cuba by Amir Valle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSafeguarding the Daring Voice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wretched of France: The 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemoirs Red and White: Poland, the War, and After Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond the Boomerang: From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Sense of Justice: Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExploitation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Prayer in the City: The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsContemplating Historical Consciousness: Notes from the Field Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHome after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking German Jewish Literature Anew: Authorship, Memory, and Place Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPlatonic Noise Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCounterStories from the Writing Center Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAgainst Exoticism: Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOrphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsImmigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPurity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Literatures Begin: A Global History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great Book-Collectors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Managing Vulnerability: South Africa's Struggle for a Democratic Rhetoric Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfrica's Past, Our Future Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Social Science For You
Men Explain Things to Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All About Love: New Visions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Quick, & Magnetic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Close Encounters with Addiction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Selection) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Human Condition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lonely Dad Conversations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Divine Money
0 ratings0 reviews