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Subject(s)

• Charity [Browse]
• Christian ethics [Browse]
• Islamic ethics [Browse]
• Benevolence [Browse]

Summary note

Based on several years of fieldwork in Egypt and Turkey, Caring for the Poor tells the stories of charity providers and volunteers. The book also places their stories within the overall development of Islamic ethics. Muslim charity, Tuğal argues, has interacted with Christian and secular Western ethics over the centuries, which themselves have a conflict-ridden and still evolving history. The overall arch that connects all of these distinct elements is (a combined and uneven) liberalization. Liberalization tends to transform care into a cold, calculating, and individualizing set of practices. Caring for the Poor meticulously documents this insidious process in Egypt and Turkey, while also drawing attention to its limits and contradictions (by using the American case to highlight the contested nature of liberalization even in its world leader). However, as historians have shown, charitable actors have intervened in decisive ways in the rise and demise of social formations. Tuğal raises the possibility, especially through his study of two controversial Turkish organizations, that Islamic charity might appropriate elements of liberalism to shift the world in a post-liberal direction. --Publisher description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Generosity as an alternative : is giving a challenge to the market logic?
• The genealogy of Islamic and Christian ethics : from renunciation and redistribution to interdependence
• The world-historical revolution in ethics : the dismantling of interdependence and the rise of the liberal subject
• Comprehensive religion : communitarian associations in Egypt
• Mobilizing volunteers on rocky terrain : neoliberal benevolence in Egypt
• Walking the tightrope between professionalism and teblig : Turkey's neoliberal associations
• Punching above their weight : Turkey's communitarian and redistributive associations
• Conclusion : combined and uneven liberalization.

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ISBN

• 9781138041035 ((hardcover))
• 1138041033 ((hardcover))
• 9781138041042 ((paperback))
• 1138041041 ((paperback))

LCCN

2016056792

OCLC

973199469

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