Jonathan Benthall
Jonathan Benthall is an honorary research associate, Department of Anthropology, University College London, and Director Emeritus, Royal Anthropological Institute, where he was Founder Editor of Anthropology Today in 1985. His publications include Disasters, Relief and the Media (1993, new edition 2010), The Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the Muslim World (with Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan, 1993, new paperback edition 2008), Returning to Religion: Why a Secular Age is Haunted by Faith (2008), Islamic Charities and Islamic Humanism in Troubled Times (2016), “Charity” in the open access Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (2017, also in French translation “Charité”), and “The rise and decline of Saudi overseas humanitarian charities,” (Occasional Paper no. 20, CIRS, Georgetown University Qatar, open access).
