Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Provides a discourse of charity that challenges and disrupts dominant secular and liberal notions of humanitarian aid. The book is recommended not only to anthropology and sociology students and scholars but also to ones of economics, theology, and religious studies.” * KULT Online *
"Amira Mittermaier has written a marvelous book.
Giving to God will be of considerable value not only to anthropologists of Islam and charitable giving, but also to historians and political scientists who seek to understand the persistence of a longstanding model of Islamic charity in the face of political, economic, and social upheaval." * Reading Religion *
"A masterpiece of the anthropology of charity and the ethos of Islamic economics." * Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations *
"Mittermaier has created an important study of Muslims negotiating their religious lives in the modern world." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgments
Introduction
during the revolution
1 • Revolutions Don’t Stop Charity
giving
2 • Divine Minimum Wage
3 • Caravan to Paradise
receiving
4 • Performances of Poverty
5 • All Thanks Belong to God
after the revolution
6 • Tomorrow Is Better
Postscript
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
