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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 21-37, March 2026.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Almsgiving is ‘the Commandment’: a note on 1 Timothy 6.6–19 [PDF]
, 2011 This article argues that ‘the commandment’ in 1 Timothy 6.13–14 refers to almsgiving. This shows that verses 11–16 are not an intrusion into a discussion of the proper use of wealth, but an integral part of the author's argument in 6.6–19.
Eubank, Nathan, Eubank, N, Nathan Eubank
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Islamic Social Funds to Foster Yunusian Social Business and Conventional Social Enterprises
Administrative Sciences, 2023 This paper proposes an integrated, comprehensive financial model that can provide startup capital to socially committed business ventures, such as social enterprises and Yunus Social Business (YSB), by using Islamic social funds (ISFs), Zakat (almsgiving)
Reazul Islam +2 more
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 21-36, March 2026.Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Other Visions of the Economy: NGOs and Transformations of Islamic Charity in North India
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores how new Islamic charity NGOs in India are transforming age‐old practices of obligatory Islamic almsgiving (zakat). This transformation reconfigured the ritual of zakat from its historical emphasis on local giving among kin and neighbors to an NGO‐based developmentalist process.
Christopher B. Taylor
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Inisiasi Gerakan Shodaqoh Sampah Bagi Masyarakat Desa Trimurti, Bantul
Jurnal Surya Masyarakat, 2019 Terkait dengan tema pengabdian masyarakat, ternyata di masyarakat Desa Trimurti masih sangat perlu sosialisasi mengenai bahaya tumpukan sampah, hasil dari aktivitas rumah tangga, yang akan mengalami dekomposisi dan menghasilkan gas CH4 dan CO2 yang ...
Arie Kusuma Paksi, Nanik Prasetyoningsih
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John Chrysostom on Almsgiving and the Use of Money
, 1994 Few themes so dominate the homilies of John Chrysostom (ca. 347–407 CE) as the plight of the poor and the necessity of almsgiving. His picture of the poor, however, is always set against the prosperous marketplace of late antiquity.
Blake Leyerle
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Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World
Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 2015-2044, September 2025.Abstract This paper re‐examines the British workhouse within the framework of racial capitalism and the Atlantic world. Traditionally understood as a domestic mechanism for managing poverty and labour in an era of industrial capitalism, we argue the workhouse was deeply intertwined with global systems of racial exploitation and accumulation from the ...
Andrew Williams, Jon May
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International Migration, Volume 63, Issue 4, August 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines Qatar's NGO‐driven humanitarian aid framework for Syrian refugees in Türkiye, focusing on structural, cultural and strategic challenges in delivering sustainable support. Through thematic analysis of interviews with Qatari NGO and Syrian civil society stakeholders, key issues such as resource constraints, administrative ...
Moosa Elayah
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WASTE DONATIONS: Shopkeeper–Waste Picker Relations in Istanbul and the Limits of Hospitable Giving
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 383-409, August 2025.ABSTRACT In Istanbul, shopkeepers frequently dispose of their paper and plastic waste by giving it to select migrant waste pickers. This article examines these waste donations as a novel form of hospitable giving in Turkey, a country that has hosted millions of irregular migrants and asylum seekers since 2011.
KEVIN YILDIRIM
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