God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State
by Nada Moumtaz
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Paperback / softback. New. <p>A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.</p><p>Up 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, <i>God's Property</i> demonstrates how these endowments have been drawn into secular logicsâno longer the property of God but of the Muslim communityâand 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, Moumtazâs ethnography reveals the furtive persistence of endowment practices that perpetuate older ways of thinking of oneâs self and oneâs responsibilities toward family and state.</p>
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