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Begging and Almsgiving in Ghana
Holger Weiss
其他書名
Muslim Positions Towards Poverty and Distress
出版Finnish Oriental Society, 2007
主題Business & Economics / Economic ConditionsSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Developing & Emerging CountriesSocial Science / Poverty & HomelessnessSocial Science / Islamic Studies
ISBN91710659709789171065971
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7f8sAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This study focuses on the conditions of poverty and the debate among Muslims in Ghana, a West African country with a substantial'but largely economically and politically marginalized?Muslim population. Most of this population views poverty is a situation for ?ordinary? poor people who seek to make marginal gains in income to avoid ever-threatening destitution and social disintegration. Most of these ?ordinary? poor people, especially poor and illiterate women, do not believe that things can change.There exists, however, a minority that criticize social and political conditions with the stated aim of striving for an Islamic solution to poverty and injustice. The common denominator for this group is that they are urban educated Muslims, having both a traditional educational background and, usually but not always, a modern, secular one, as well. For them, the concept of poverty more readily forms part of a religious discourse involving feasible strategies for change. Their basic idea is to highlight the possibilities of generating new forms of financial resources by combining Islamic ethics with a modern development-oriented outlook. Their vision is the usability of obligatory almsgiving in a modern context, namely that, instead of the traditional individual-centered ?person-to-person? charities, zakat or obligatory almsgiving should be directed to become the source of communal and collective societal improvement.