Nada Moumtaz
Biographic Data
| ID | 83333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nada Moumtaz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nada |
| FAMILY NAME | Moumtaz |
| SIGNATURE | MOUMTAZ N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0729-8036 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Divine Money: Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine
Belonging's Belongings: Sunni Waqfs and the Limits of Community in Beirut
Lebanon is often described as being plagued by interreligious conflict among the country's eighteen religious communities. Since the mid-2000s, with the political dominance of Shiʿi Hezbollah, Sunni-Shiʿi tensions have been particularly acrimonious in multireligious Beirut. This article examines the role of Sunni communal property known as waqf in the making and unmaking of these religious identities in the last 20 years. Ethnographic and archiva…
Gucci and the waqf: Inalienability in Beirut's postwar reconstruction
On August 4, 2020, one of the largest nonnuclear explosions in history rocked the city of Beirut, leaving over 200 people dead, 6,500 injured, and 300,000 homeless. As Beirutis debated strategies for rebuilding, another reconstruction project haunted their discussions: the postwar reconstruction of Beirut's city center, overseen by the private company Solidere. For many, Solidere stands for a neoliberal reconstruction project that placed profits …
God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State
Up to the twentieth century, Islamic charitable endowments provided the material foundation of the Muslim world. In Lebanon, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the imposition of French colonial rule, many of these endowments reverted to private property circulating in the marketplace. In contemporary Beirut, however, charitable endowments have resurged as mosques, Islamic centers, and nonprofit organizations. A historical anthropology in dia…
Between justice and goodness
Sharia and Kinship in the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean
This essay engages Beshara Doumani's Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean. It highlights Doumani's significant deconstruction of the culturalist assumptions of the category of the Arabor Muslim family. Based on the wealth of the archive uncovered by Doumani, the essay calls for further engagement with the Islamic legal tradition in the analysis of sharia court records in order to better understand the relation between state, law, and communit…
Critique, Naqd, Orthodoxy
Is the Family Waqf a Religious Institution?” Charity, Religion, and Economy in French Mandate Lebanon
This essay analyzes a debate among Muslim jurists in French Mandate Syria and Lebanon around whether the family waqf , a form of charitable endowment dedicated to the founder’s family, is a legitimate form of the waqf and whether it should be abolished. I argue that the new categorization of the family waqf as a deviation from real charitable giving was informed by new conceptions of the economy, religion, and charity. Because the debate was amon…
Theme Issue: A Third Wave of Waqf Studies
From Forgiveness to Foreclosure: Waqf , Debt, and the Remaking of the Ḥanafī Legal Subject in Late Ottoman Mount Lebanon
Refiguring Islam
This chapter examines the line of inquiry in the anthropology of Islam in the Middle East that started to appear in the late-1980s and early 1990s, but that especially marked the current millennium. It discusses the new body of scholarship and the new questions that this intervention has made possible, highlighting its important theoretical contributions to the study of religion and to our conceptual apparatus in anthropology and beyond, particul…
God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State
Up to the twentieth century, Islamic charitable endowments provided the material foundation of the Muslim world. In Lebanon, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the imposition of French colonial rule, many of these endowments reverted to private property circulating in the marketplace. In contemporary Beirut, however, charitable endowments have resurged as mosques, Islamic centers, and nonprofit organizations. A historical anthropology in dia…
Gucci and the waqf: Inalienability in Beirut's postwar reconstruction
On August 4, 2020, one of the largest nonnuclear explosions in history rocked the city of Beirut, leaving over 200 people dead, 6,500 injured, and 300,000 homeless. As Beirutis debated strategies for rebuilding, another reconstruction project haunted their discussions: the postwar reconstruction of Beirut's city center, overseen by the private company Solidere. For many, Solidere stands for a neoliberal reconstruction project that placed profits …
Belonging's Belongings: Sunni Waqfs and the Limits of Community in Beirut
Lebanon is often described as being plagued by interreligious conflict among the country's eighteen religious communities. Since the mid-2000s, with the political dominance of Shiʿi Hezbollah, Sunni-Shiʿi tensions have been particularly acrimonious in multireligious Beirut. This article examines the role of Sunni communal property known as waqf in the making and unmaking of these religious identities in the last 20 years. Ethnographic and archiva…
Critique, Naqd, Orthodoxy
Is the Family Waqf a Religious Institution?” Charity, Religion, and Economy in French Mandate Lebanon
This essay analyzes a debate among Muslim jurists in French Mandate Syria and Lebanon around whether the family waqf , a form of charitable endowment dedicated to the founder’s family, is a legitimate form of the waqf and whether it should be abolished. I argue that the new categorization of the family waqf as a deviation from real charitable giving was informed by new conceptions of the economy, religion, and charity. Because the debate was amon…
Theme Issue: A Third Wave of Waqf Studies
From Forgiveness to Foreclosure: Waqf , Debt, and the Remaking of the Ḥanafī Legal Subject in Late Ottoman Mount Lebanon
Refiguring Islam
This chapter examines the line of inquiry in the anthropology of Islam in the Middle East that started to appear in the late-1980s and early 1990s, but that especially marked the current millennium. It discusses the new body of scholarship and the new questions that this intervention has made possible, highlighting its important theoretical contributions to the study of religion and to our conceptual apparatus in anthropology and beyond, particul…
Is the Family Waqf a Religious Institution?” Charity, Religion, and Economy in French Mandate Lebanon
This essay analyzes a debate among Muslim jurists in French Mandate Syria and Lebanon around whether the family waqf , a form of charitable endowment dedicated to the founder’s family, is a legitimate form of the waqf and whether it should be abolished. I argue that the new categorization of the family waqf as a deviation from real charitable giving was informed by new conceptions of the economy, religion, and charity. Because the debate was amon…
Theme Issue: A Third Wave of Waqf Studies
From Forgiveness to Foreclosure: Waqf , Debt, and the Remaking of the Ḥanafī Legal Subject in Late Ottoman Mount Lebanon
Sharia and Kinship in the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean
This essay engages Beshara Doumani's Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean. It highlights Doumani's significant deconstruction of the culturalist assumptions of the category of the Arabor Muslim family. Based on the wealth of the archive uncovered by Doumani, the essay calls for further engagement with the Islamic legal tradition in the analysis of sharia court records in order to better understand the relation between state, law, and communit…
Critique, Naqd, Orthodoxy
God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State
Up to the twentieth century, Islamic charitable endowments provided the material foundation of the Muslim world. In Lebanon, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the imposition of French colonial rule, many of these endowments reverted to private property circulating in the marketplace. In contemporary Beirut, however, charitable endowments have resurged as mosques, Islamic centers, and nonprofit organizations. A historical anthropology in dia…
Between justice and goodness
Gucci and the waqf: Inalienability in Beirut's postwar reconstruction
On August 4, 2020, one of the largest nonnuclear explosions in history rocked the city of Beirut, leaving over 200 people dead, 6,500 injured, and 300,000 homeless. As Beirutis debated strategies for rebuilding, another reconstruction project haunted their discussions: the postwar reconstruction of Beirut's city center, overseen by the private company Solidere. For many, Solidere stands for a neoliberal reconstruction project that placed profits …
Belonging's Belongings: Sunni Waqfs and the Limits of Community in Beirut
Lebanon is often described as being plagued by interreligious conflict among the country's eighteen religious communities. Since the mid-2000s, with the political dominance of Shiʿi Hezbollah, Sunni-Shiʿi tensions have been particularly acrimonious in multireligious Beirut. This article examines the role of Sunni communal property known as waqf in the making and unmaking of these religious identities in the last 20 years. Ethnographic and archiva…
Divine Money: Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine
Islamic Studies and History (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Islam (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies (4 works)