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dc.contributor.authorMoumtaz, Nada
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-20T03:30:22Z
dc.date.available2021-07-20T03:30:22Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50147
dc.description.abstractUp 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 resurfaced as mosques, Islamic centers, and nonprofit 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 have 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islamen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern historyen_US
dc.subject.otherReligion
dc.subject.otherIslam
dc.subject.otherSunni
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherMiddle East
dc.subject.otherReligion
dc.subject.otherIslam
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.titleGod's Property
dc.title.alternativeIslam, Charity, and the Modern State
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.100
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780520975781
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintUniversity of California Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/344d6300-c73c-4b1d-91dd-d8efe7c85d29
oapen.identifier.isbn9780520975781


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