Divine Money
eBook - ePub

Divine Money

Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Divine Money

Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine

About this book

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?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Anonymization
  7. Introduction: An Anthropological Perspective on Zakat
  8. 1. Fieldwork under Military Rule: Subjecting Oneself to Lateral Disciplining
  9. 2. Zakat Institutions on Shifting Grounds
  10. 3. Concealing and Exposing Need: Shyness, Piety, and Dignity
  11. 4. The Piety of Giving: Modeling Direct Zakat Interactions
  12. 5. The Ethics of Giving and Market Transactions
  13. 6. The Other World and the Occupation
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index