Throughout the Middle East, Islamist charities and social
welfare organizations play a major role in addressing the
socioeconomic needs of Muslim societies, independently of the
state. Through case studies of Islamic medical clinics in Egypt,
the Islamic Center Charity Society in Jordan, and the Islah Women s
Charitable Society in Yemen, Janine A. Clark examines the structure
and dynamics of moderate Islamic institutions and their social and
political impact. Questioning the widespread assumption that such
organizations primarily serve the poorer classes, Clark argues that
these organizations in fact are run by and for the middle class.
Rather than the vertical recruitment or mobilization of the poor
that they are often presumed to promote, Islamic social
institutions play an important role in strengthening social
networks that bind middle-class professionals, volunteers, and
clients. Ties of solidarity that develop along these horizontal
lines foster the development of new social networks and the
diffusion of new ideas."
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