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Author:   Robert Lacey ,  Jonathan Benthall
Publisher:   Gerlach Press
Imprint:   Gerlach Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.772kg
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9783940924322

ISBN 10:   3940924326
Pages:   411
Publication Date:   15 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Acknowledgements Introduction Robert Lacey and Jonathan Benthall I. Islamic Charities: Types and Contexts 1. Sacralized or Secularized Aid? Positioning Gulf-based Muslim Charities Marie Juul Petersen 2. Islamic Charities on a Fault Line: the Jordanian Case Benôit Challand 3. Gulf Charities in Africa Mayke Kaag II. A Historical Case Study 4. Charities and Politics in Arabia during the First Half of the 20th Century: the al-Kafs of Hadhramaut in Comparative Perspective Christian Lekon III. Governmental Aid from GCC States 5. The Gulf States as Multilateral Donors: the Case of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) Annika Kropf IV. Charities in Saudi Arabia Today 6. Domestic, Religious, Civic? Perspectives on the Institutionalized Charitable Field in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Nora Derbal 7. Saudi Arabia as a Global Humanitarian Donor Khalid Al-Yahya and Nathalie Fustier V. Legal Cases 8. A Good Day to Bury a Bad Charity: Charting the Rise and Fall of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Yusra Bokhari, Nasim Chowdhury, and Robert Lacey 9. The Impact of US Laws, Regulations, and Policies on Gulf Charities Wendell Belew VI. Regulation and Monitoring 10. The Qatar Authority for Charitable Activities (QACA) from Commencement to Dissolution (2005-2009) Abdul Fatah S. Mohamed 11. The Islamic Charities Project (Formerly Montreux Initiative) Jonathan Benthall VII. Madrasas in South Asia and Afghanistan 12. The Madrasas of South Asia and their Implications for Gulf Charities Gunter Mulack 13. Madrasas in South Asia: the Strategic Geopolitical Concern about Gulf Charities Rushda Siddiqui VIII. Charitable Activities Beyond Geopolitics 14. Giving to Live, and Giving to Receive: the Construction of Charity in Dubai Aaron Pankhurst 15. Care, Redemption, and the Afterlife: Spiritual Experiences of Bathing Volunteers in a Charity Care Center in Iran Sachiko Hosoya 16. Afterword: Capital, Migration, Intervention: Rethinking Gulf Islamic Charities Darryl Li Envoi ""and beyond"" Robert Lacey and Jonathan Benthall About the Contributors Index"

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Robert Lacey (MA Cantab) is the author of The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa'ud (1981) and Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia (2009). A frequent visitor to the kingdom, he writes, broadcasts, and lectures regularly on the subject of Saudi Arabia, with special reference to issues of terrorism and terrorist financing. Jonathan Benthall, a graduate of Cambridge University, is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. He was Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute for 26 years and Founder Editor of Anthropology Today. He has also served as Chair of the International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) in Oxford. His publications include Disasters, Relief and the Media (1993, new edition 2010) The Charitable Crescent: Politics of aid in the Muslim world (co-authored with Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan, 2003, new paperback edition 2009), and Returning to Religion: Why a secular age is haunted by faith (2008).

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