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Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa

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Editors:
  1. Holger Weiss

    1. Department of History, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

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  • Addresses the discourses, agendas, and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa

  • Focuses on how traditional Muslim welfare and charity institutions of are used to improve social welfare

  • Highlights the role and interplay of local, national, and international Sunni, Shia, and Ahmadiyya Muslim faith-based organizations and NGOs

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Muslim NGOs, Zakat and the Provision of Social Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Introduction

    • Holger Weiss
    Pages 1-38Open Access

  3. Who Do FBOs Speak For? The Conundrum of Representation

    • Yonatan N. Gez
    Pages 39-59

  4. Reflections on Trust and Trust Making in the Work of Islamic Charities from the Gulf Region in Africa

    • Mayke Kaag, Soumaya Sahla
    Pages 61-84

  5. Charity, ONG-Ization and Emergent Ethics of Volunteerism: The Case of Islamic NGOs in Côte d’Ivoire

    • Marie Nathalie LeBlanc
    Pages 85-117

  6. Islamic NGOs in Somalia and Their Role in the Somali State-Building Process

    • Valeria Saggiomo
    Pages 119-142

  7. Between Charity and Financing ‘Terror’: The Dilemma of Muslim Charitable Organizations in Kenya

    • Suleiman Athuman Chembea
    Pages 143-168

  8. ‘Enterprisation of Islamic FBOs’—Towards a New Typology of Islamic Non-governmental Organisations in Consideration of Their Multiple Relatedness

    • Sebastian Müller
    Pages 169-199

  9. Transnational Networks and Global Shi‘i Islamic NGOs in Tanzania

    • Mara A. Leichtman
    Pages 201-245

  10. Politics of Humanitarianism: The Ahmadiyya and the Provision of Social Welfare

    • Katrin Langewiesche
    Pages 247-272

  11. Discourses on Zakat and Its Implementation in Contemporary Ghana

    • Holger Weiss
    Pages 273-303Open Access

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 305-313
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About this book

This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The individual chapters discuss how traditional Muslim welfare and charity institutions, zakat (obligatory or mandatory almsgiving), sadaqa (voluntary almsgiving and donations) and waqf (pious endowments), are used to improve social welfare, focusing on instrumentalization and institutionalization in the collection and distribution of zakat. The book includes case studies from West Africa (Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal), the Horn of Africa (Somalia) and East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), highlighting the role and interplay of local, national and international Sunni, Shia and Ahmadiyya Muslim faith-based organizations and NGOs. 

Chapters  "Muslim NGOs, Zakat and the Provision of Social Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Introduction" and "Discourses on Zakat and Its Implementation in Contemporary Ghana" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

    Holger Weiss

About the editor

Holger Weiss is a Professor of General History at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and ordinary member of the Finnish Society for Sciences and Letters. His research focuses on global and Atlantic history, West African environmental history, and Islamic studies, particularly Islam in Ghana. 

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