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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Nada Moumtaz, "Godâs Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
Description: Nada Moumtazâs Godâs Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (University of California Press, 2021) is an ethnography anchored in deep study of the Muslim scholarly tradition, the urban landscape, and Lebanon across the Ottoman, Mandate, and post-independence periods. At the center of the book is the waqf, often translated as âpious endowment.â An act and a practice exhibiting or embodying both change and stability since the nineteenth century, the waqf allows Moumtaz to reinterpret major categories in anthropology, Islamic legal studies, and history, including charity, family, the economy, the public and private, and the state. This is the second New Book...