Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa

Chapter 1: Introduction: Muslim FBOs/NGOs and the Provision of Social Welfare in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa (Holger Weiss, Åbo Akademi University, Finland).- Chapter 2: Who do FBOs speak for? The conundrum of representation (Yonatan N. Gez, The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Israel).- Chapter 3. Conceptualizing the Ethics and Actions of Muslim FBOs in Africa: Local/Global Connections and Contexts (Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine, USA).- Chapter 4: Islamic NGOs in Somalia and their Role in the Somali State Building Process (Valeria Saggiomo, University l'Orientale of Naples, Italy).- Chapter 5: Zakat in Northern Nigeria (Franz Kogelmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany).- Chapter 6: Muslim Faith-Based Organisations and the Provision of Social Welfare in Ghana (Holger Weiss, Åbo Akademi University, Finland).- Chapter 7: Politics of Humanitarianism. The Ahmadiyya and the Provision of Social Welfare (Katrin Langewiesche, University of Mainz, Germany).- Chapter 8: Charity, ONG-ization and Emergent Ethics of Voluntarism: The Case of Islamic NGOs in Côte d'Ivoire (Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Université du Québec à Montréal & Chaire de recherche sur l'islam contemporain en Afrique de l'ouest).- Chapter 9: Gulf Charities' Welfare Provision in West-Africa: Working With or Against the Grain? (Mayke Kaag, African Studies Centre, Leiden University).- Chapter 10. Between Charity and Financing 'Terror': The Dilemma of Muslim Charitable Organizations in Kenya (Suleiman Athuman Chembea, Kagumo Teachers' College, Kenya).- Chapter 11: Braving the Radicals heads-on: Politics and Aesthetics of Counter-Radicalisation Discourses in a Kenya's Muslim Civil Society Organisation (Halkano Abdi Wario, Egerton University, Kenya).- Chapter 12: Islamic FBOs in Tanzania - Considerations on the Influence of 'Local Frameworks' (Sebastian Müller, University of Bayreuth, Germany).- Chapter 13. Discourses of Shi'i Islamic NGOs in Senegal and Tanzania (Mara Leichtman, Michigan State University).