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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Islamic Charities: Types and Contexts; 1 Sacralized or Secularized Aid? Positioning Gulf-based Muslim Charities; 2 Islamic Charities on a Fault Line: the Jordanian Case; 3 Gulf Charities in Africa; II. A Historical Case Study; 4 Charities and Politics in Arabia during the First Half of the20th Century: the al-Kafs of Hadhramaut in Comparative Perspective; III. Governmental Aid from GCC States; 5 The Gulf States as Multilateral Donors: The Special Case of theOPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)

IV. Charities in Saudi Arabia Today6 Domestic, Religious, Civic? Notes on the InstitutionalizedCharitable Field in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 7 Saudi Arabia as a Global Humanitarian Donor; V. Legal Cases; 8 A Good Day to Bury a Bad Charity: Charting the Rise and Fall of theAl-Haramain Islamic Foundation; 9 The Impact of US Laws, Regulations, and Policies on Gulf Charities; VI. Regulation and Monitoring; 10 The Qatar Authority for Charitable Activities (QACA) fromCommencement to Dissolution (2005-2009); 11 The Islamic Charities Project (Formerly Montreux Initiative)

VII. Madrasas in South Asia and Afghanistan12 The Madrasas of South Asia and their Implications for Gulf Charities; 13 Madrasas in South Asia: the Strategic Geopolitical Concern aboutGulf Charities; VIII. Charitable Activities Beyond Geopolitics; 14 Giving to Give, and Giving to Receive: the Construction ofCharity in Dubai; 15 Care, Redemption, and the Afterlife: Spiritual Experiences ofBathing Volunteers in a Charity Care Center in Iran; 16 Afterword: Capital, Migration, Intervention: Rethinking GulfIslamic Charities; Envoi "...and beyond"; About the Contributors; Index

Annotation Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the "Age of Terror" and Beyond is the first book to be published on the charities of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf, covering their work both domestic and international. From a diversity of viewpoints, the book addresses: the historical roots of Islamic philanthropy in religious traditions and geopolitical movements; the interactions of the Gulf charities with "Western" relief and development institutions - now under pressure owing to budgetary constraints; numerous case studies from the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia; the impact of violent extremism on the sector, with the legal repercussions that have followed - especially in the USA; the recent history of attempts to alleviate the obstacles faced by bona fide Islamic charities, whose absence from major conflict zones now leaves a vacuum for extremist groups to penetrate; the prospects for a less politicized Islamic charity sector when the so-called "war on terror" eventually loses its salience.

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