Charities in the non-western world : the development and regulation of indigenous and Islamic charities /: the development and regulation of indigenous and Islamic charities. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown and Justin Pierce.
• Editors: Brown, Rajeswary Ampalavanar, 1943-; (Islamic scholar), Pierce, Justin
• Other Names: Walton, Oliver
• Contents: Everything is politics : understanding the political dimensions of NGO legitimacy in conflict-affected regions / Oliver Walton -- The role and governance of Islamic faith organisations in South Africa / Justin Pierce -- Co-operatives and the state in Burma/Myanmar, 1900-2012 : a case study of failed top-down co-operative development models? / Anthony Webster -- Charity reconstructed : the transformation of social welfare in rural Japan in the nineteenth century / Marion Ehlers -- Private charities and the public good : institutional memory of plague prevention in Manchuria / Thomas Dubois -- Re-form hui identity and the communal network in the imperial extension from Ming to Qing in southwest Chinese frontier / Ma Jianxiong -- Universalistic humanitarianism in mainland China : a case study of a French NGO / Gilles Guiheux and Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce -- In the world but not of the world : governing Christian charities in contemporary China / Nanlai Cao -- Boundaries of non-state welfare provision : comparative evidence from Turkey, Sudan and Germany / Fulya Apaydin -- The diversity of Islamic charitable activities : analytical distinctions among Shi'a Muslim organizations in Lebanon / Melani Cammett -- Saudi charitable impulse abroad : the coercive power of belief and money in Thailand / Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown -- Saudi charity to Hadhramaut as a bone of contention : the Hijaz Fund episode, 1949-50 / Christian Lekon -- Comparative perspective on the growth and legal transformations of Arab (Islamic) charities / Benoit Challand -- Colonial state and Muslim institutions : history of regulatory framework for awqaf (religious endowments) in British India / Muhammad Zubair Abbasi.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 341 pages), illustrations, map
• Subjects: 361.7; Charities; Islam -- Charities; Charity laws and legislation; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services; Charities; Charity laws and legislation; Islam -- Charities; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317938514; 1317938518; 9781315859040; 1315859041; 9781317938521; 1317938526
• Related ISBNs: 9780415857895; 0415857899
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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