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3. Social Policy and the Islamic World in Comparative Perspective: Taking Stock, Moving Forward

Authors : Rana Jawad, Rana Eseed

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Abstract

This chapter offers a comparative perspective on the conceptual and practical linkages between social policy as a field of public practice and the subject focus of this volume which is the Muslim world. The primary focus on Islamic social welfare here is related to the importance given to social responsibility in the major world religions and the historic influence of religion on issues of social welfare action and care for the vulnerable. The chapter provides two case study illustrations: one about Muslim social welfare activism in the UK and one about Islamic social movements in Jerusalem. These serve to support the overarching argument which is that Islamic social welfare practices are not homogenous and it may be more apt to refer to ‘Muslim worlds’ to recognise the diverse range of actors and organisations in different parts of the world but also who have differing interpretations of the Muslim faith.

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Footnotes
1
In what follows, “Palestinians/Palestinian society in Israel” refer to Palestinian citizens of sovereign Israel, excluding Palestinians in East Jerusalem who have residency status only and Palestinians in the rest of the Occupied Territories who have no citizenship rights whatsoever.
 
2
It is also highly symbolic in the history of Palestinian citizens due to the massacre of 47 of its inhabitants by the Israel Border Police in 1956.
 
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Metadata
Title
Social Policy and the Islamic World in Comparative Perspective: Taking Stock, Moving Forward
Authors
Rana Jawad
Rana Eseed
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Social Policy in the Islamic World

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-57752-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-57753-7

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57753-7_3