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Caring for the Poor : Islamic and Christian Benevolence in a Liberal World, Hardback Book

Caring for the Poor : Islamic and Christian Benevolence in a Liberal World Hardback

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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, Tugal 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.

Tugal 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.

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