"Just Like Prophet Mohammad Preached": Labor, Piety, and Charity in Contemporary Turkey

Isik, Damla

doi:10.1080/13545701.2013.825376

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“…Taqwa is constantly emphasized in Islam and explained in at least 300 verses of the holy Qur’an and various Hadith (authentic sayings of Prophet Muhammad, Peace be Upon Him), reinforcing the religious role of piety in Muslim’s conducts including economic activities and objectives. The connection between economy and Islamic piety commonly elaborated in the literature is premised on the connecting (moderating/mediating) variables of among others, poverty (Bonner, 2005), corruption (Mimoun et al , 2016) and various economic and financial activities such as zakat (Kochuyt, 2009), Islamic banking and finance (Berg and Kim, 2014), charity (Isik, 2013), Islamic endowment ( waqf ) (Hairul-Suhaimi and Hisham, 2011) and Islamic insurance ( Takaful ) (Hairul–Suhaimi, 2015).…”

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Exploring stakeholders’ views on a corporatized zakat institution’s management performance

Nahar

2018

International Journal of Ethics and Systems

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Purpose This paper aims to fill the noticeably fragmented zakat literature repertoire by empirically exploring stakeholders’ views toward zakat management performance issues based on a selected zakat institution (ZI) operating on a corporatized platform with corporate administrative style. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative approach using a questionnaire survey distributed to Muslims in the State which ZI is operating was adopted. A total of 448 usable responses are used in the analysis covering descriptive and mean difference. Findings The results indicate that managerial reform configuration in terms of corporatization has been viewed positively by stakeholders, translated into a comforting agreement score toward ZI’s improved management performance (collection, disbursement and reporting). Such perceptions are, however, observably sensitive to demographic factors of gender and employment type. The survey also document evidence that the corporatization exercise itself had improved respondents’ confidence toward ZI being the zakat administrator in the State. Originality/value The research contributes to the public policy debate with respect to corporatized ZI’s management performance from the stakeholders’ perspective. The results are arguably informative at various levels, forming a basis for reality check and policy inputs for various stakeholders, including (but not limited to) the ZI itself, zakat payers and asnafs, particularly in designing relevant and necessary administrative strategies and relevant policy formulation in addressing the performance and accountability issues in ZIs.

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Exploring stakeholders’ views on a corporatized zakat institution’s management performance

Nahar

2018

International Journal of Ethics and Systems

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Entrepreneurial Subjectivities and Gendered Complexities: Neoliberal Citizenship in Turkey

Altan‐Olcay

2014

Feminist Economics

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This contribution explores the promotion of women's entrepreneurial activities in Turkey. Using participant observation and semi-structured interviews conducted during 2011-12 in two civilsociety organizations, which run programs fostering women's entrepreneurship, it shows how neoliberal ideologies interact with ideas of labor, responsibility, and gender. Emphasizing individual rationalities and entrepreneurial attitudes, these civil-society programs contribute to the construction model subjects of neoliberal citizenship, who are expected to be self-governing and self-sufficient. Yet problems embedded in the neoliberal paradigm and these particular organizations' commitment to women's rights produce contradictions in implementation. The goal of entrepreneurial women is predicated on the assumption that women contribute more to their families' well being than men. The programs' attempt to construct potential entrepreneurs out of women for this purpose reveals problems with discourses of individual self-sufficiency and responsibility.

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Agency through Development: Hausa Women's NGOs and CBOs in Kano, Nigeria

Wallace

2014

Feminist Economics

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Analyzing the participation o f Hausa w omen in religiously influenced nongovernm ental organizations (NGOs) devoted to developm ent work provides critical insights into the com plex intersection of gender, religion, class, culture, and politics and economics. Based on interviews with leaders an d employees o f various NGOs, including community-based organizations (CBOs), in Kano, Nigeria, in 2010-11, this in-depth case study provides im portant examples o f how various types of NGOs navigate political pressures when it com es to funding; it recognizes the understudied im portance o f w om en's labor contributions in the context o f the developm ent apparatus in Africa; it highlights the role o f women as progenitors rath er than benefactors of econom ic developm ent; and it illustrates the unique role that faith-based organizations (FBOs) can and do play in term s o f reaching certain m arginalized segments o f the population. KEYWORDS Econom ics o f gender, w om en's labor force participation, West Africa, Islam JEL Code: 0 5 5 INTRO DU CTIO NAnalyzing the participation of devout West African Muslim women in development work -specifically, education, economic empowerment, and health -can provide crucial insights into the complex interactions of religion, culture, and politics with women's economic activities. The ways in which gender and development are framed by the state often cast women as beneficiaries of targeted development programming, which serves to further obscure their economic contributions. As several scholars have observed, dominant development paradigms have tended to ignore the contributions of Muslim women to development efforts in their

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"Just Like Prophet Mohammad Preached": Labor, Piety, and Charity in Contemporary Turkey

Cited by 16 publications

References 38 publications

Exploring stakeholders’ views on a corporatized zakat institution’s management performance

Exploring stakeholders’ views on a corporatized zakat institution’s management performance

Entrepreneurial Subjectivities and Gendered Complexities: Neoliberal Citizenship in Turkey

Agency through Development: Hausa Women's NGOs and CBOs in Kano, Nigeria

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