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Caring for the Poor - Islamic and Christian Benevolence in a Liberal World (Paperback)
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Caring for the Poor - Islamic and Christian Benevolence in a Liberal World (Paperback)
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Based on several years of fieldwork in Egypt and Turkey, Caring for
the Poor tells the stories of charity providers and volunteers. The
book also places their stories within the overall development of
Islamic ethics. Muslim charity, Tugal argues, has interacted with
Christian and secular Western ethics over the centuries, which
themselves have a conflict-ridden and still evolving history. The
overall arch that connects all of these distinct elements is (a
combined and uneven) liberalization. Liberalization tends to
transform care into a cold, calculating, and individualizing set of
practices. Caring for the Poor meticulously documents this
insidious process in Egypt and Turkey, while also drawing attention
to its limits and contradictions (by using the American case to
highlight the contested nature of liberalization even in its world
leader). However, as historians have shown, charitable actors have
intervened in decisive ways in the rise and demise of social
formations. Tugal raises the possibility, especially through his
study of two controversial Turkish organizations, that Islamic
charity might appropriate elements of liberalism to shift the world
in a post-liberal direction.
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