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Author Retsikas, Konstantinos, author.

Title A Synthesis of Time : Zakat, Islamic Micro-Finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia / Konstantinos Retsikas
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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Contents 1. Dis-closing Intervals -- 2. Dividing the Present -- 3. Justifying Law -- 4. Anticipating Life -- 5. Promising Deliverance -- 6. Contracting the Future -- 7. Soliciting Time -- 8. Rewinding the Reel
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Microfinance -- Indonesia -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Economic anthropology.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Finance.
Cultural studies.
Social Science -- Anthropology -- General.
Social Science -- General.
Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Economic anthropology
Microfinance -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Indonesia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030349332
3030349330