Muslim Humanitarianism Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/muslim-humanitarianism/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:47:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png Muslim Humanitarianism Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/muslim-humanitarianism/ 32 32 Introduction: Muslim Humanitarianism https://allegralaboratory.net/muslim-humanitarianism-muhum/ https://allegralaboratory.net/muslim-humanitarianism-muhum/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:24:50 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=31054 Muslims around the world partake in comparable practices of aid, welfare and care that have received a wide range of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/muslim-humanitarianism-muhum/feed/ 0 A note on humanitarian terminology https://allegralaboratory.net/a-note-on-humanitarian-terminology-muhum-2/ https://allegralaboratory.net/a-note-on-humanitarian-terminology-muhum-2/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:20:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=31056 This article reviews the lexical field associated with “charity,” “philanthropy,” “humanitarianism” and similar terms in English, and concludes with a […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/a-note-on-humanitarian-terminology-muhum-2/feed/ 0 Theorizing Humanitarianism for an Islamic Counterpublic #MUHUM https://allegralaboratory.net/theorizing-humanitarianism-for-an-islamic-counterpublic-muhum/ https://allegralaboratory.net/theorizing-humanitarianism-for-an-islamic-counterpublic-muhum/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:15:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=31058 Closely attending to Muslim theorizations provides an opportunity for social scientists to stop asking such questions as ‘what is so […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/theorizing-humanitarianism-for-an-islamic-counterpublic-muhum/feed/ 1 Reflections on a Theory of Zakat https://allegralaboratory.net/reflections-on-a-theory-of-zakat-muhum/ https://allegralaboratory.net/reflections-on-a-theory-of-zakat-muhum/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:10:36 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=31060 This inquiry into the role of “obligatory almsgiving” (zakat) within Muslim humanitarianism presents a theorization of two modes of Islamic […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/reflections-on-a-theory-of-zakat-muhum/feed/ 2 Saudi Arabia, Humanitarian Aid and Knowledge Production: What do we really know? https://allegralaboratory.net/saudi-arabia-humanitarian-aid-and-knowledge-production-what-do-we-really-know-muhum-5/ https://allegralaboratory.net/saudi-arabia-humanitarian-aid-and-knowledge-production-what-do-we-really-know-muhum-5/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:05:40 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=31063 Saudi Arabia has one of the largest humanitarian aid budgets in the world. It counts as an ‘emerging’ donor of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/saudi-arabia-humanitarian-aid-and-knowledge-production-what-do-we-really-know-muhum-5/feed/ 0 The Egyptian Red Crescent in the Twentieth Century https://allegralaboratory.net/the-egyptian-red-crescent-in-the-twentieth-century-muhum/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-egyptian-red-crescent-in-the-twentieth-century-muhum/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:00:32 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=31065 The Egyptian Red Crescent was founded in 1912 by Sheikh Ali Yussuf with a clear Panislamic and anticolonial agenda. In […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-egyptian-red-crescent-in-the-twentieth-century-muhum/feed/ 0 A Postcolonial Civic? Shi‘i Philanthropy and the Making and Marking of Urban Space in Mumbai https://allegralaboratory.net/a-postcolonial-civic-shii-philanthropy-and-the-making-and-marking-of-urban-space-in-mumbai-muhum/ https://allegralaboratory.net/a-postcolonial-civic-shii-philanthropy-and-the-making-and-marking-of-urban-space-in-mumbai-muhum/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:55:18 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=31067 Scholarly discussions of charity, philanthropy and humanitarianism in varied contexts tend to uphold the moral ideal of giving for the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/a-postcolonial-civic-shii-philanthropy-and-the-making-and-marking-of-urban-space-in-mumbai-muhum/feed/ 0 At Odds with the Impulse: Muslim Humanitarianism and its Exclusions in Northern Pakistan https://allegralaboratory.net/at-odds-with-the-impulse-muslim-humanitarianism-and-its-exclusions-in-northern-pakistan-muhum/ https://allegralaboratory.net/at-odds-with-the-impulse-muslim-humanitarianism-and-its-exclusions-in-northern-pakistan-muhum/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:50:31 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=31099 Drawing on fieldwork undertaken between 2004 and 2013 in Gilgit Town, the multi-sectarian capital of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/at-odds-with-the-impulse-muslim-humanitarianism-and-its-exclusions-in-northern-pakistan-muhum/feed/ 0 Islam, Humanitarianism and everyday religion https://allegralaboratory.net/islam-humanitarianism-and-everyday-religion-muhum/ https://allegralaboratory.net/islam-humanitarianism-and-everyday-religion-muhum/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:45:47 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=31086 In this intervention I argue that charitable or humanitarian practices among contemporary Muslims— and everyday religiosity more generally—are constituted and […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/islam-humanitarianism-and-everyday-religion-muhum/feed/ 1 Muslim Humanitarianism: An Afterword https://allegralaboratory.net/muslim-humanitarianism-an-afterword-muhum/ https://allegralaboratory.net/muslim-humanitarianism-an-afterword-muhum/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:35:07 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=31128 What kind of practices, forms of moral reasoning and ethical orientation does Muslim humanitarianism entail? In what contexts and in […]

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