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Summary
Summary
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.
Author Notes
Robert Lacey (MA Cantab) is the author of The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa'ud (1981) and Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia (2009). A frequent visitor to the kingdom, he writes, broadcasts, and lectures regularly on the subject of Saudi Arabia, with special reference to issues of terrorism and terrorist financing. Jonathan Benthall, a graduate of Cambridge University, is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. He was Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute for 26 years and Founder Editor of Anthropology Today. He has also served as Chair of the International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) in Oxford. His publications include Disasters, Relief and the Media (1993, new edition 2010) The Charitable Crescent: Politics of aid in the Muslim world (co-authored with Jerome Bellion-Jourdan, 2003, new paperback edition 2009), and Returning to Religion: Why a secular age is haunted by faith (2008).
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| I Islamic Charities: Types and Contexts | |
| 1 Sacralized or Secularized Aid? Positioning Gulf-based Muslim Charities | p. 25 |
| 2 Islamic Charities on a Fault Line: the Jordanian Case | p. 53 |
| 3 Gulf Charities in Africa | p. 79 |
| II A Historical Case Study | |
| 4 Charities and Politics in Arabia during the First Half of the 20 th Century: the al-Kafs of Hadhramaut in Comparative Perspective | p. 95 |
| III Governmental Aid from GCC States | |
| 5 The Gulf States as Multilateral Donors: The Special Case of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) | p. 119 |
| IV Charities in Saudi Arabia Today | |
| 6 Domestic, Religious, Civic? Notes on the Institutionalized Charitable Field in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | p. 145 |
| 7 Saudi Arabia as a Global Humanitarian Donor | p. 169 |
| V Legal Cases | |
| 8 A Good Day to Bury a Bad Charity: Charting the Rise and Fall of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation | p. 199 |
| 9 The Impact of US Laws, Regulations, and Policies on Gulf Charities | p. 231 |
| VI Regulation and Monitoring | |
| 10 The Qatar Authority for Charitable Activities (QACA) from Commencement to Dissolution (2005-2009) | p. 259 |
| 11 The Islamic Charities Project (Formerly Montreux Initiative) | p. 285 |
| VII Madrasas of South Asia and Afghanistan | |
| 12 The Madrasas of South Asia and their Implications for Gulf Charities | p. 307 |
| 13 Madrasas in South Asia: the Strategic Geopolitical Concern about Gulf Charities | p. 313 |
| VIII Charitable Activities Beyond Geopolitics | |
| 14 Giving to Give, and Giving to Receive: the Construction of Charity in Dubai | p. 335 |
| 15 Care, Redemption, and the Afterlife: Spiritual Experiences of Bathing Volunteers in a Charity Care Center in Iran | p. 353 |
| 16 Afterword: Capital, Migration, Intervention: Rethinking Gulf Islamic Charities | p. 375 |
| Envoi"...and beyond" | p. 387 |
| About the Contributors | p. 391 |
| Index | p. 397 |
