Overview
- Addresses the discourses, agendas, and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa
- Focuses on how traditional Muslim welfare and charity institutions of are used to improve social welfare
- Highlights the role and interplay of local, national, and international Sunni, Shia, and Ahmadiyya Muslim faith-based organizations and NGOs
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This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The individual chapters discuss how traditional Muslim welfare and charity institutions, zakat (obligatory or mandatory almsgiving), sadaqa (voluntary almsgiving and donations) and waqf (pious endowments), are used to improve social welfare, focusing on instrumentalization and institutionalization in the collection and distribution of zakat. The book includes case studies from West Africa (Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal), the Horn of Africa (Somalia) and East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), highlighting the role and interplay of local, national and international Sunni, Shia and Ahmadiyya Muslim faith-based organizations and NGOs.
Chapters "Muslim NGOs, Zakat and the Provision of Social Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Introduction" and "Discourses on Zakat and Its Implementation in Contemporary Ghana" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Chapters "Muslim NGOs, Zakat and the Provision of Social Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Introduction" and "Discourses on Zakat and Its Implementation in Contemporary Ghana" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Holger Weiss is a Professor of General History at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and ordinary member of the Finnish Society for Sciences and Letters. His research focuses on global and Atlantic history, West African environmental history, and Islamic studies, particularly Islam in Ghana.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa
Editors: Holger Weiss
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38308-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38307-7Published: 12 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38310-7Published: 13 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38308-4Published: 11 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 313
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Politics, Public Policy, Politics and Religion, Development and Social Change