Autorentext

Emanuel Schaeublin is an anthropologist focusing on ethics and political conflict in the Arabic-speaking Middle East and Europe. He is a senior researcher at ETH Zurich and an advisor on film productions.

Zusammenfassung
Zakat giving or mutual aid is a sacred practice in Islam. Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat donations function in contemporary Palestine. Based on his ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Nablus, Schaeublin traces zakat flows as they provide critical support to households living under military rule and security surveillance.

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Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Anonymization
Introduction: An Anthropological Perspective on Zakat

1. Fieldwork under Military Rule: Subjecting Oneself to Lateral Disciplining
2. Zakat Institutions on Shifting Grounds
3. Concealing and Exposing Need: Shyness, Piety, and Dignity
4. The Piety of Giving: Modelling Direct Zakat Interactions
5. The Ethics of Giving and Market Transactions
6. The Other World and the Occupation
   Notes
   References
   Index