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Human Security and Philanthropy

Islamic Perspectives and Muslim Majority Country Practices

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Samiul Hasan

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

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  • Contains recommendations for increasing the effectiveness for third sector organizations in the Muslim world
  • Case studies range across the full spectrum of all Muslim-dominant countries
  • Uses the concept of human security as a theoretical basis underlying all the case studies

Part of the book series: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies (NCSS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  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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Keywords

About this book

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.

Reviews

“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)

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Samiul Hasan

About the editor

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Security and Philanthropy

  • Book Subtitle: Islamic Perspectives and Muslim Majority Country Practices

  • Editors: Samiul Hasan

  • Series Title: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2525-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2524-7Published: 18 April 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4379-1Published: 08 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2525-4Published: 20 April 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2579

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 362

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Business Ethics, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology, general

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