Charities in the Non-Western World: The Development and Regulation of Indigenous and Islamic Charities – Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown and Justin Pierce (Eds.)

Charities in the Non-Western World: The Development and Regulation of Indigenous and Islamic Charities

Editor(s): Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown & Justin Pierce

Publisher: Routledge

Print Length: 360 pages

Genre: Non-Fiction / Social Science, Human Geography, Ethnic Studies

Area: China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Japan, Thailand, Iran, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Turkey/Turkiye, Sudan, Germany, India, Hadhramaut, Saudi Arabia

Topic: Charity, Indigenous & Indigeneity, Islam, Muslim, Muslim World, Humanitarian Action & Humanitarianism, Development, Giving, Management, People Management, Non-Profit Organization (NGO), Organization, Collaboration & Participation, Ownership, Local & Global, Policy & Practice, Politics & Power, Conflict, Social Impact, Social Work & Services, Social/Aid Workers, Rural

This book looks at the operation of indigenous charities at a regional, localised and global level. Chapters focus on the adaptation, accountability and operation of charities across a wide range of jurisdictions from China to Indonesia, Thailand, Iran, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Lebanon and Turkey. It examines the ownership, participation and accountability of charities in a regional, localised and international context, and draws on the experiences and operation of charities. By presenting a cross-disciplinary exploration of the operation of charities, the book offers an interesting insight into the functioning and identification of the influencing factors impacting the operation of charities.

List of illustrations

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction — Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown and Justin Pierce  

SECTION 1 

1. ‘Everything is Politics’: Understanding the Political Dimensions of NGO Legitimacy in Conflict-affected Regions — Oliver Walton  

2. The Role and Governance of Islamic Faith Organisations in South Africa — Justin Pierce 

3. Co-operatives and the State in Burma/Myanmar 1900 – 2012: A Case Study of Failed Top-Down Co-Operative Development Models — Anthony Webster  

4. Charity Reconstructed: The Transformation of Social Welfare in Rural Japan in the Nineteenth Century — Maren A. Ehlers  

PART 2

5. The Salvation of Religion? Private Charity and New Religions of the Early Chinese Republic — Thomas Dubois  

6. Re-creating Hui identity and the Charity Network in the Imperial Extension from Ming to Qing in the Southwest Chinese Frontier — Ma Jianxiong  

7. Universalistic Humanitarianism in Mainland China: A Case Study of a French NGO — Gilles Guiheux and Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce  

8. In the World But Not of the World: Governing Grassroots Christian Charity in China — Nanlai Cao  

PART 3

9. Boundaries of Nonstate Welfare Provision: Comparative Evidence from Turkey, Sudan and Germany — Fulya Apaydin  

10. The Diversity of Islamic Charitable Activities: Analytical Distinctions Among Shi’a Muslim Organizations in Lebanon — Melani Cammett  

11. Saudi Charitable Impulse Abroad: The Coercive Power of Belief and Money in Thailand — Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown  

12. Sa’udi Charity to Hadhramaut as a Bone of Contention: The Hijaz Fund Episode, 1949-50 — Christian Lekon  

13. Comparative Perspective on the Growth and Legal Transformations of Arab (Islamic) Charities — Benoit Challand  

14. Colonial State and Muslim Institutions: History of Regulatory Framework for Awqāf (Religious Endowments) in British India — Muhammad Zubair Abbasi

Index

Rajeswary A. Brown is a Malaysian. She was educated at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and at the SOAS University of London, where she received her Ph.D. in 1978. She used to be a member of the Economic History Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and presently Emeritus Professor in International Business, Royal Holloway College, London.

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Justin Pierce teaches at the University of East London, UK.

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