자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016934200

International Standard Book Number  

9798380622905

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

956

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Abdou, Mohamed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : New York University., 2023

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Physical Description  

1 online resource(545 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Lockman, Zachary.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2023.

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Summary, Etc.  

요약My dissertation examines the intersection of morality, politics, and economy in the reform of Islamic endowments (Waqf) by the modernizing Egyptian State in the 19th century, and how it produced a religious form of capitalism in the Middle East. Historically, Muslims set aside property in perpetuity to support charitable services and get closer to God. Preserving endowed wealth against the decay of time and embezzlement by Waqfs' directors and beneficiaries was a perennial challenge for Islamic states. This applies to the governors of the semi-autonomous Ottoman province of Egypt, known as Khedives, who linked the expansion of endowed wealth to the fulfillment of a major node of their sovereignty: the provision of public utility. Gradually in the 1851-1914 period, the Khedival State transformed Waqfs into a financial network of credit and debt, which led to the abstraction of endowed wealth and its dissociation from its material and familial histories. I tell this story not as one of the economy's secularization under the brunt of Westernization and colonialism as is customarily treated by other scholars, but as the foregrounding of religion and morality in the access of Egyptians and Ottomans to property. Moreover, the economy's reification as a religious sphere was not always a top-down process, but the outcome of a tension inherent to Khedival public utility, between the State's public interest and the private rights of Waqfs' beneficiaries and directors. I demonstrate how that tension intensified with the onset of financial crises during the post-1882 British colonial occupation, and how it contributed to anti-colonial imaginaries. Ultimately, my dissertation provides a fresh perspective on combining cultural and economic histories and incorporating everyday strategies by people to understand capitalism as both a global and local phenomenon.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Middle Eastern history.

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Law.

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Islamic studies.

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Religion.

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Gender

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Islamic law

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Ottoman history

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Urban theory

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Capitalism

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New York University Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History

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Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-04A.

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Dissertation Abstract International

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