Author: Filippo Osella

Filippo Osella is Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Sussex (UK). His books include Islam, Politics and Anthropology (with B. Soares, 2010), Islamic Reforms in South Asia (with C. Osella, 2012), Religion and the Morality of the Market (with D. Rudnyckyj, 2017). He has recently co-edited (with S. Ramaswamy) a special issue of Modern Asian Studies on “Charity and Philanthropy in South Asia” (2018). His current research focuses on trading networks between China, India and West Asia. He has recently begun research on artisanal fishers’ attitudes towards risk in Kerala (India).

Filippo Osella

Islam, Humanitarianism and everyday religion

July, 2019 / By Filippo Osella

In this intervention I argue that charitable or humanitarian practices among contemporary Muslims— and everyday religiosity more generally—are constituted and […]