IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/22055_13.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Religion and philanthropy in Turkey

In: Philanthropy in the Muslim World

Author

Listed:
  • Ali Çarkoğlu

Abstract

With its predominantly Muslim population and a secular institutional setting, Turkish philanthropy presents a suis generis case. First, this chapter summarizes the conceptual foundations of Muslim philanthropy in the context of Turkey, arguing that religious and non-religious donations are empirically impossible to differentiate. Next, a macro-level evaluation of foundations in the country is provided to underline geographic cleavages in the institutional background for philanthropic engagement. Then, from a micro-individual perspective focusing solely on fitre, zekat, and sacrificial lamb skin donations, it traces the development of donations within these three frameworks. Finally, the concluding section underlines the open questions that need further research.

Suggested Citation

  • Ali Çarkoğlu, 2023. "Religion and philanthropy in Turkey," Chapters, in: Shariq A. Siddiqui & David A. Campbell (ed.), Philanthropy in the Muslim World, chapter 13, pages 213-231, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:22055_13
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781035306572/9781035306572.00021.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:22055_13. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.