Between Ideology and International Politics: The Dynamics and Transformation of a Transnational Islamic Charity

Pall, Zoltan

doi:10.1057/9781137438577_9

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“…Its food aid, poverty relief, scholarships, and heavily subsidized medical services are all used explicitly as vehicles for spreading Salafism and winning converts to "pure" Islam. Their decision-making bodies are dominated by religious scholars rather than professionals trained in philanthropy (Pall 2015). How well such heavily politicized Islamic charities deliver aid remains an open question.…”

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Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links

Kuran

2018

Journal of Economic Literature

114

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This essay critically evaluates the analytic literature concerned with causal connections between Islam and economic performance. It focuses on works since 1997, when this literature was last surveyed comprehensively. Among the findings are the following: Ramadan fasting by pregnant women harms prenatal development; Islamic charities mainly benefit the middle class; Islam affects educational outcomes less through Islamic schooling than through structural factors that handicap learning as a whole; Islamic finance has a negligible effect on Muslim financial behavior; and low generalized trust depresses Muslim trade. The last feature reflects the Muslim world’s delay in transitioning from personal to impersonal exchange. The delay resulted from the persistent simplicity of the private enterprises formed under Islamic law. Weak property rights reinforced the private sector’s stagnation by driving capital from commerce to rigid waqfs. Waqfs limited economic development through their inflexibility and democratization by keeping civil society embryonic. Parts of the Muslim world conquered by Arab armies are especially undemocratic, which suggests that early Islamic institutions were particularly critical to the persistence of authoritarian patterns of governance. States have contributed to the persistence of authoritarianism by treating Islam as an instrument of governance. As the world started to industrialize, non-Muslim subjects of Muslim-governed states pulled ahead of their Muslim neighbors, partly by exercising the choice of law they enjoyed under Islamic law in favor of a Western legal system.( JEL N25, N45, O43, O53, P51, Z12)

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Section: Islamic Charitiesmentioning

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Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links

Kuran

2018

Journal of Economic Literature

114

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“…Today, sedekah is conceptualized as a way to gain wealth in this life, as it is grounded in the belief that God will give back more than one has donated and, most significantly, that this will happen shortly after one has done so. Sedekah is thus less related to the hereafter than to the here and now, which leads us to consider sedekahand indeed Islamic charities as such (Pall 2015)as a phenomenon of the contemporary, globalizing world.…”

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Accelerating Islamic charities in Indonesia:zakat,sedekahand the immediacy of social media

Kailani

Sláma

2019

South East Asia Research

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The article describes the latest developments of Islamic charities and their role as major non-state actors in Indonesia's field of social welfare. It considers debates about the practices of Islamic charity in colonial and post-colonial times when zakat (obligatory almsgiving) was conceptualized as social welfare and as a tool for social justice or as an instrument to implement the post-colonial state's development goals. We examine the contemporary popularity of sedekah (voluntary almsgiving) among Indonesian middle-class Muslims and the rise of Islamic charities that specialize in sedekah programmes. These charities use social media to document their activities and to raise funds, and have changed the discourse of almsgiving. We argue that the temporal logic of acceleration increasingly informs the field of social welfare in Indonesia today. Islamic charities display their efficiency, transparency, and the material rewards that sedekah practices bring to donors. Today, Islamic charity is no longer primarily associated with social welfare and social justice but increasingly with economic gain. Accordingly, charities are concerned with accelerating their aid and its mediation, emphasizing immediacy in order to appeal to donors who demand a quick, unbureaucratic conversion of donations into concrete help, and an immediate material and spiritual return on their 'investment'.

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Online Salafi rivalries in Indonesia: between sectarianism and ‘good’ citizenship

Sunarwoto

2021

Religion, State and Society

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In explaining sectarian violence and conflict in Indonesia, some scholars have highlighted the crucial role played by key political actors. Taking online Salafi rivalries as its point of departure, this contribution aims to further advance the discussion on the sectarianisation thesis offered by Hashemi and Postel, which argues that one of the key factors in religious sectarianism is not theology but authoritarianism. Unlike the thesis, this contribution argues that Salafi sectarianism is facilitated by Indonesia's democratic atmosphere rather than by authoritarianism. However, this contribution agrees with the thesis that theology is not a determining aspect in Salafi sectarianism. Although framed in theological terms, Salafi rivalries are driven by competing to demonstrate their religious identity, authority, and 'good' citizenship.

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Between Ideology and International Politics: The Dynamics and Transformation of a Transnational Islamic Charity

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links

Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links

Accelerating Islamic charities in Indonesia:zakat,sedekahand the immediacy of social media

Online Salafi rivalries in Indonesia: between sectarianism and ‘good’ citizenship

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