o:id
	5209
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/5209
o:resource_template
	Book chapter
o:resource_class
	bibo:Chapter
dcterms:title
	Politics of Humanitarianism: The Ahmadiyya and the Provision of Social Welfare
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25245
dcterms:date
	2020
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8476
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113528068 Q113528068
	iwac-reference-0000424
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:alternative
	Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa
dcterms:abstract
	Ahmadi Muslims have combined local contributions and financial support from overseas to support various development projects since the 1920s when they started their mission activities in West Africa. The chapter outlines contemporary social welfare activities of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Ghana and Burkina Faso. Humanitarian aid provided by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and its NGO Humanity First is one of the issues favouring public recognition as well as interreligious dialogue to which the Ahmadis are equally strongly committed. Most of the donations for Humanity First come from members of the Ahmadiyya community, as zakat or sadaqa donations. Public recognition is particularly important with regard to the idiosyncratic situation of the Ahmadiyya movement in the Islamic world. The Ahmadis consider themselves Muslim, but they are not recognized as such by the majority of Muslims. While cooperation with other Muslim Groups or Islamic NGOs in Burkina is difficult for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, it clearly expresses its willingness to cooperate with the state.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/546
dcterms:provenance
	Cham
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1248
bibo:editorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1364
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38308-4_9 10.1007/978-3-030-38308-4_9
bibo:pageEnd
	272
bibo:pageStart
	247

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