Christopher B Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 303878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher B Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher B |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-9418-592X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Other Visions of the Economy
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. Businessmen founding Islamic charity organizations aimed to make zakat more efficient and systematic through new modalities of management. Yet, thi…
Ethics
Islamic scriptures teach that charity is best given in secret. If it is a secret, however, this poses a methodological problem for the ethnographer. How do we study it? Answering this question has led me to some surprising insights for fieldwork in religion. My recent research investigated five Islamic charity organizations operating in north India. As an anthropologist, I now see “ethics” not only as a critical component of culture, or what we t…
Receipts and Other Forms of Islamic Charity
Islamic almsgiving is on the rise among Muslims in India, as charitable donations by individuals come to supplant landed endowments as the lifeblood of many Islamic associations. Techniques of mass fundraising in India by Islamic revivalist movements such as Deoband facilitated their expansion across the subcontinent. Such fundraising depended on documentary practices such as verification letters, lists of donors, and receipts for donations. This…
Introduction. Islamicate Lucknow Today
We would like to thank Sandria Freitag, Nandini Gooptu, and our audiences at the Association for Asian Studies' annual meeting in Philadelphia (2014)
Madrasas and Social Mobility in the Religious Economy
Lucknow is world-famous for Islamic learning. The city produced the ‘ulama of Firangi Mahal, the Sunni seminary of Nadwat al-’Ulama, and the revival and consolidation of a distinctly Indian Shi’ism. In contemporary India, however, critics lament madrasa education’s obscurantism, decrying its declining ‘usefulness’ in the 21st century. Yet a view of madrasas as merely cloistered spaces, impervious to traffic with contemporary life, is misleading. …
Receipts and Other Forms of Islamic Charity
Islamic almsgiving is on the rise among Muslims in India, as charitable donations by individuals come to supplant landed endowments as the lifeblood of many Islamic associations. Techniques of mass fundraising in India by Islamic revivalist movements such as Deoband facilitated their expansion across the subcontinent. Such fundraising depended on documentary practices such as verification letters, lists of donors, and receipts for donations. This…
Madrasas and Social Mobility in the Religious Economy
Lucknow is world-famous for Islamic learning. The city produced the ‘ulama of Firangi Mahal, the Sunni seminary of Nadwat al-’Ulama, and the revival and consolidation of a distinctly Indian Shi’ism. In contemporary India, however, critics lament madrasa education’s obscurantism, decrying its declining ‘usefulness’ in the 21st century. Yet a view of madrasas as merely cloistered spaces, impervious to traffic with contemporary life, is misleading. …
Introduction. Islamicate Lucknow Today
We would like to thank Sandria Freitag, Nandini Gooptu, and our audiences at the Association for Asian Studies' annual meeting in Philadelphia (2014)
Madrasas and Social Mobility in the Religious Economy
Lucknow is world-famous for Islamic learning. The city produced the ‘ulama of Firangi Mahal, the Sunni seminary of Nadwat al-’Ulama, and the revival and consolidation of a distinctly Indian Shi’ism. In contemporary India, however, critics lament madrasa education’s obscurantism, decrying its declining ‘usefulness’ in the 21st century. Yet a view of madrasas as merely cloistered spaces, impervious to traffic with contemporary life, is misleading. …
Receipts and Other Forms of Islamic Charity
Islamic almsgiving is on the rise among Muslims in India, as charitable donations by individuals come to supplant landed endowments as the lifeblood of many Islamic associations. Techniques of mass fundraising in India by Islamic revivalist movements such as Deoband facilitated their expansion across the subcontinent. Such fundraising depended on documentary practices such as verification letters, lists of donors, and receipts for donations. This…
Ethics
Islamic scriptures teach that charity is best given in secret. If it is a secret, however, this poses a methodological problem for the ethnographer. How do we study it? Answering this question has led me to some surprising insights for fieldwork in religion. My recent research investigated five Islamic charity organizations operating in north India. As an anthropologist, I now see “ethics” not only as a critical component of culture, or what we t…
Other Visions of the Economy
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. Businessmen founding Islamic charity organizations aimed to make zakat more efficient and systematic through new modalities of management. Yet, thi…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islam (2 works) · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (2 works)