Financial Worship: The Quranic Injunction to Almsgiving

Charité

“…Christian Décobert, historien de l'Islam ancien, a eu l'originalité de faire le lien entre le terme coranique clé de zakat (aumône obligatoire comme la dîme hébraïque, et l'un des cinq «piliers» de l'Islam) et la théorisation de la pureté de Mary Douglas (son premier ouvrage Purity and danger de 1966, [3] plutôt que son travail ultérieur sur la Bible), le terme zakat ayant des origines communes avec l'hébreu-araméen zakut, qui a des connotations de pureté, de rectitude et d'épanouissement, mais pas d'aumône (Décobert 1991: 198ss proposé un lien avec la tradition agricole d'offrande des prémices à Dieu, ouvrant ainsi des possibilités d'étude comparative qui restent à explorer plus avant (Benthall 1999, Benthall et Bellion-Jourdan 2003 (Maxwell et Majid 2016: 196).…”

NGOization of Islamic Charity: Claiming Legitimacy in Changing Institutional Contexts

“…There are a number of very concrete institutions for giving charity detailed in the Quran, including the obligatory zakat and several forms of voluntary almsgiving, including sadqa (Benthall 1999). Giving charity is a personal religious act, and according to Islamic teachings, the right hand should not know what the left hand is doing.…”

Charity

“…Décobert also drew inferences (1991: 196) about the self-representation and kinship systems of early Muslim societies from the rules laid down in the Qur'an about the distribution of zakat, with their eight categories of eligible beneficiaries (Qur'an 9.60), and he proposed a link with the agricultural tradition of offering firstfruits to God, thus opening up opportunities for comparative study which have yet to be fully explored (Benthall 1999, Benthall & Bellion-Jourdan 2003.…”