Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Holger Weiss.
• Editors: Weiss, Holger
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Muslim FBOs/NGOs and the Provision of Social Welfare in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa (Holger Weiss, Åbo Akademi University, Finland).- Chapter 2: Who do FBOs speak for? The conundrum of representation (Yonatan N. Gez, The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel).- Chapter 3. Conceptualizing the Ethics and Actions of Muslim FBOs in Africa: Local/Global Connections and Contexts (Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine, USA).- Chapter 4: Islamic NGOs in Somalia and their Role in the Somali State Building Process (Valeria Saggiomo, University l'Orientale of Naples, Italy).- Chapter 5: Zakat in Northern Nigeria (Franz Kogelmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany).- Chapter 6: Muslim Faith-Based Organisations and the Provision of Social Welfare in Ghana (Holger Weiss, Åbo Akademi University, Finland).- Chapter 7: Politics of Humanitarianism. The Ahmadiyya and the Provision of Social Welfare (Katrin Langewiesche, University of Mainz, Germany).- Chapter 8: Charity, ONG-ization and Emergent Ethics of Voluntarism: The Case of Islamic NGOs in Côte d'Ivoire (Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Université du Québec à Montréal & Chaire de recherche sur l'islam contemporain en Afrique de l'ouest).- Chapter 9: Gulf Charities' Welfare Provision in West-Africa: Working With or Against the Grain? (Mayke Kaag, African Studies Centre, Leiden University).- Chapter 10. Between Charity and Financing 'Terror': The Dilemma of Muslim Charitable Organizations in Kenya (Suleiman Athuman Chembea, Kagumo Teachers' College, Kenya).- Chapter 11: Braving the Radicals heads-on: Politics and Aesthetics of Counter-Radicalisation Discourses in a Kenya's Muslim Civil Society Organisation (Halkano Abdi Wario, Egerton University, Kenya).- Chapter 12: Islamic FBOs in Tanzania – Considerations on the Influence of 'Local Frameworks' (Sebastian Müller, University of Bayreuth, Germany).- Chapter 13. Discourses of Shi'i Islamic NGOs in Senegal and Tanzania (Mara Leichtman, Michigan State University).
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (313 pages)
• Subjects: Political science; Public policy; Religion and politics; Economic development; Social change; Political Science -- Public Policy -- General; Religion -- Religion, Politics & State; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Public administration; Religion & politics; Development studies; Politics & government; Africa--Politics and government
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030383084
• Related ISBNs: 9783030383077
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