
Begging and Almsgiving in Ghana : Muslim Positions Towards Poverty and Distress
by WEISS HOLGER-
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables | p. 5 |
Prologue | p. 7 |
Introduction | p. 12 |
Almsgiving within the 'Muslim sphere' | p. 19 |
Social capital and wealth | p. 25 |
Muslim positions towards poverty alleviation | p. 27 |
Investigating the 'Muslim sphere' in Ghana: Sources and previous research | p. 31 |
Islam and Muslims in contemporary Ghana | p. 37 |
Accommodation or rejection? | p. 37 |
Muslim political activity from the colonial to the present period | p. 41 |
Contested loyalties: Muslims, the civil society and the secular state | p. 46 |
Undercounting the Muslims? The census debate of 2002 | p. 52 |
Increased manifestation of Muslim presence in Ghana | p. 56 |
Poverty, violence and the Muslim community | p. 59 |
Poverty in Northern Ghana | p. 62 |
Beggars and poor people in Tamale | p. 68 |
Economic and societal marginalization of Muslims - imagined and real | p. 76 |
'Muslim beggars' and 'poor Northerners': The view from the South | p. 76 |
Declaring begging to be illegal | p. 86 |
'Ordinary peoples' perceptions: Lazy people making money out of begging | p. 92 |
The beggar's voice | p. 96 |
Muslim voices: Break the circle of poverty through modern education | p. 98 |
The expansion and activities of Muslim NGOs in Ghana | p. 110 |
To reinterpret zakat or not? | p. 129 |
Zakat and poverty alleviation: Voluntary or organized? | p. 132 |
Zakat, ushr and/or sadaqa in the North? | p. 138 |
Institutionalizing Zakat: Many local and regional funds or a national Zakat fund? | p. 140 |
Local initiatives | p. 141 |
The Ahmadiyya | p. 143 |
Visions about a Zakat fund | p. 146 |
Assistance to the poor, hospitality towards strangers | p. 150 |
Almsgiving in a global age | p. 154 |
Concluding reflections | p. 157 |
Appendix I | p. 160 |
Appendix II | p. 161 |
Bibliography | p. 162 |
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