ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Entangled Universals of Transnational Islamic Charity
This project examines transnational Islamic charity as a global force. The goals of Islamic charity shifted in the long twentieth century, beyond a community-scale oriented towards rewards in the afterlife and construction of religious infrastructure for Muslims. Islamic charitable networks have invested in public works for all humans: state-of-the-art hospitals, multistorey housing complexes and schools for modern education. Transnational Islamic charity today claims 'humanity' as its constituency. As a universalist category, humanity is no longer the monopoly of Western humanitarianism. The project’s central objective is to study how Islamic charitable networks in seeking to address…
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