TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moumtaz,Nada
TI  - God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State 
T2  - Islamic Humanities
SN  - 9780520975781
AV  - BP170.25 
U1  - 297.5/4 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Berkeley, CA : 
PB  - University of California Press, 
KW  - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law)
KW  - Lebanon
KW  - Charity laws and legislation
KW  - Endowments
KW  - Islam
KW  - Charities
KW  - Waqf
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Datation --; Introduction --; Part I Architecture --; 1 Waqf, A Non-Definition --; 2 State, Law, and the "Muslim Community" --; Part II Grammars --; 3 The Intent of Charity --; 4 Charity and the Family --; 5 The "Waqf's Benefit" and Public Benefit --; Conclusion --; Appendix A Main Ottoman Mutūn, Commentaries, and Glosses of the Beirut Court --; Appendix B ʿUmari Mosque Expenditures and Appointments --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index
N2  - A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.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, 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520975781
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520975781
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ER  -