Waqfin Historical Perspective: Onlinefatāwāand Contemporary Discourses by Muslim Scholars

Autor:	Sabrina Joseph
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Narrative history Islam Cultural sustainability Waqf Indigenous Power (social and political) State (polity) Anthropology Political Science and International Relations Institution Sociology Social science media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. 34:425-437
ISSN:	1469-9591 1360-2004
Popis:	Since the beginnings of Islam, awqāf or religious endowments have been the medium through which various public services (i.e. schools, hospitals, and mosques) have been provided to communities. Historically, endowments were both insulated from state authority and an emanation of imperial and/or state power. Modern day Muslim scholars have taken a renewed interest in waqf, particularly as Muslim societies look to revive those indigenous institutions which promote cultural sustainability. This paper examines perceptions of the role of waqf in Muslim society as evidenced in current online fatāwā and writings by Muslim scholars. These sources are drawn from English-medium, Muslim web organizations and sites which have particular appeal among Muslims living in the West. This literature propagates a historical narrative of waqf which highlights the institution's moral significance, civic identity, and economic efficiency, and plays down its pre-nineteenth-century links to state power and its potential i...
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