Author: Christopher Taylor

Dr. Christopher B. Taylor is a post-doctoral fellow at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies and instructor of anthropology at George Mason University. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Lily School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. He was also a research innovation fellow of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He has published on India, philanthropy, international development, and Islamic law.

Christopher Taylor

Reflections on a Theory of Zakat

July, 2019 / By Christopher Taylor

This inquiry into the role of “obligatory almsgiving” (zakat) within Muslim humanitarianism presents a theorization of two modes of Islamic […]