A synthesis of time : zakat, Islamic micro-finance and the question of the future in 21st-century Indonesia / Konstantinos Retsikas.
By: Retsikas, Konstantinos [author.].
Publisher: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2020Description: 274 p.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783030349356.Other title: Synthesis of time : zakat, Islamic micro-finance and the question of the future in twenty first century Indonesia.Subject(s): Microfinance -- Indonesia -- Religious aspects -- Islam | Economic anthropologyGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: This book is an anthropological investigation into the different forms the economy assumes, and the different purposes it serves, when conceived from the perspective of Islamic micro-finance as a field of everyday practice. It is based on long-term ethnographic research in Java, Indonesia, with Islamic foundations active in managing zakat and other charitable funds, for purposes of poverty alleviation. The book explores the social foundations of contemporary Islamic practices that strive to encompass the economic within an expanded domain of divine worship and elucidates the effects such encompassment has on time, its fissure and synthesis. In order to elaborate on the question of time, the book looks beyond anthropology and Islamic studies, engaging attentively, critically and productively with the post-structuralist work of G. Deleuze, M. Foucault and J. Derrida, three of the most important figures of the temporal turn in contemporary philosophy.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book is an anthropological investigation into the different forms the economy assumes, and the different purposes it serves, when conceived from the perspective of Islamic micro-finance as a field of everyday practice. It is based on long-term ethnographic research in Java, Indonesia, with Islamic foundations active in managing zakat and other charitable funds, for purposes of poverty alleviation. The book explores the social foundations of contemporary Islamic practices that strive to encompass the economic within an expanded domain of divine worship and elucidates the effects such encompassment has on time, its fissure and synthesis. In order to elaborate on the question of time, the book looks beyond anthropology and Islamic studies, engaging attentively, critically and productively with the post-structuralist work of G. Deleuze, M. Foucault and J. Derrida, three of the most important figures of the temporal turn in contemporary philosophy.