Human Security and Philanthropy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction and Theoretical Framework

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Muslim Majority Countries, Philanthropy, and Human Security: Concepts and Contexts

      • Samiul Hasan

      Pages 3-29

   3. Human Security in a Globalised World: Concepts and Issues for the Muslim World

      • I. Hossain, A. Isiaka Abiodun

      Pages 31-49

   4. Islam, Property and Philanthropy: Ethical and Philosophical Foundations and Cultural Influences

      • Samiul Hasan

      Pages 51-74

3. Philanthropy and the Third Sector in MMCs: Policy, Legal Framework, and Challenges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Philanthropy, Laws, and the Third Sector Growth: Analyses from MMCs

      • Samiul Hasan

      Pages 77-113

4. Muslim Philanthropy in MMCs: Situational Analyses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Muslim Philanthropy: Praxis and Human Security Across Muslim Majority Countries

      • Samiul Hasan

      Pages 117-144

5. Third Sector Organizations and Human Security in MMCs: Extent, and Dimensions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Modern Third Sector Organizations in MMCs: People, Property, and Mutuality

      • Samiul Hasan

      Pages 147-181

   3. The Waqf and Human Security in Muslim Majority Countries: Traditions, Modern Practices, and Challenges

      • Niaz Ahmed Khan, Sultana Jareen

      Pages 183-204

   4. Microfinance Institutions and Human Security in Muslim Majority Countries: Achievements and Challenges

      • Fatima Rasheed

      Pages 205-227

6. Human Security in MMCs: Situational Analyses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Water, Gender, Philanthropy, and Human Security: Courses and Concerns in MMCs

      • George Odhiambo

      Pages 231-261

   3. Education and Health for Human Security in MMCs: Achievements and the Third Sector Interventions

      • Shahadut Hossain, Zahirul Hoque

      Pages 263-288

   4. Decent Work for Human Security in Muslim Majority Countries (MMCs)

      • Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin

      Pages 289-305

7. Conclusions and Recommendations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307

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   2. Philanthropy and Human Security in MMCs: Characteristics, Relationships, and Challenges

      • Samiul Hasan

      Pages 309-346

8. Back Matter

   Pages 347-362

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Muslims for hundreds of years have been involved in philanthropic activities targeting poor and needy people through varied types of ‘third sector’ organizations (TSOs). Nonetheless, many people in Muslim majority countries (MMCs), not having freedom from hunger, face human security crises. Not much is known about the TSOs or their human security provisions in MMCs. To fill this knowledge gap, this Volume documents and analyses philanthropy and all types of third sector organizations including the awqaf (Muslim endowments) vis-à-vis human security in MMCs. The study is comprehensive in treating the subject matter (analyzing the legal environment, characteristics, extent and functioning of all forms of the third sector and their human security performances) and in geographic coverage (incorporating all forty-seven Muslim majority countries in Africa and Asia). It is also innovative expounding TSO density analysis, state support score (SSS) and a third-sector capability measure (TCM) tostudy their interrelationships. It is an essential unique reference book for students and scholars of the third sector and human security, international organizations, development agencies, donor governments, security experts and in particular anybody with interests in Islam and MMCs.

• Muslim philanthropy
• holistic human security and giving
• legality of Muslim non profits
• non profit societies in the Muslim world
• pattern of giving in the Muslim community
• third sector organizations in the Muslim world

“This provocative and easily readable book not only gives a refreshing conceptualization of the meaning of human security from the UNDP viewpoint but also demonstrates the universality of the primacy of human beings across civilizational notions of security. … the text is highly recommended to scholars in civil society studies, researchers, professionals working in the not-for-profit sector.” (Bernard Ugochukwu Nwosu, Voluntas, Vol. 28, 2017)

• Department of Political Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, Utd.Arab.Emir.

  Samiul Hasan

Dr. Samiul Hasan is an accomplished academic with teaching experience in universities in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates. With interests and expertise in voluntarism, governance, urban studies, human development and Islam, he has published many pioneering research works building a list of about 130 publications. His professional expertise and passion for researching and disseminating new knowledge about Islam and Muslim communities culminated in a major comparative study (as principal researcher and editor) of people, geography, colonial heritage, economic system and political structure and their impacts on human development in all 47 Muslim majority countries in Africa and Asia (‘The Muslim World in the 21st Century: Space, Power and Human Development’, Springer, 2012).

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