Charities in the Non-Western World

Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown is an Emeritus Professor at the Royal Holloway College in London, UK. Justin Pierce teaches at the University of East London, UK.

Introduction Part 1 1. ‘Everything is Politics’: Understanding the Political Dimensions of NGO Legitimacy in Conflict-affected Regions 2. The Role and Governance of Islamic Faith Organisations in South Africa 3. Co-operatives and the State in Burma/Myanmar 1900 – 2012: A Case Study of Failed Top-Down Co-Operative Development Models? 4. Charity Reconstructed: The Transformation of Social Welfare in Rural Japan in the Nineteenth Century Part 2 5. Private Charities and the Public Good Institutional Memory of Plague Prevention in Manchuria 6. Re-form Hui identity and the Communal Network in the Imperial Extension from Ming to Qing in Southwest Chinese Frontier 7. Universalistic Humanitarianism in Mainland China: A Case Study of a French NGO 8. In the World But Not Of the World: Governing Christian Charities in Contemporary China Part 3 9. Boundaries of Non-state Welfare Provision: Comparative Evidence from Turkey, Sudan and Germany 10. The Diversity of Islamic Charitable Activities: Analytical Distinctions Among Shi’a Muslim Organizations in Lebanon 11. Saudi Charitable Impulse Abroad: The Coercive Power of Belief and Money in Thailand 12. Sa’udi Charity To Hadhramaut As A Bone of Contention: The Hijaz Fund Episode, 1949-50 13. Comparative Perspective on the Growth and Legal Transformations of Arab (Islamic) Charities 14. Colonial State and Muslim Institutions: History of Regulatory Framework for Awqaf (Religious Endowments) in British India