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A Synthesis of Time

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34933-2

ISBN: 978-3-030-34932-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 8, 2020

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Chapter 1Dis-closing Intervals

Retsikas, Konstantinos

Pages: 1 –35

[Under the sign of actualising a zakat-grounded justice, institutional actors known in Indonesia as LAZ (Lembaga Amil Zakat or Zakat Management Bodies) demonstrate the potential inherent in Islam for bringing about significant improvements in the life conditions of the poor, safeguarding the...
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Chapter 2Dividing the Present

Retsikas, Konstantinos

Pages: 37 –65

[Over the past fifty years, a most definite reconceptualisation of zakat has taken place in Indonesia, whereby zakat has changed from a largely unmarked and little elaborated upon ritual of annual worship to a fundamental instrument of socio-economic justice. The chapter concentrates on...
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Chapter 3Justifying Law

Retsikas, Konstantinos

Pages: 67 –103

[The introduction of Law No. 38/1999 on Zakat Administration by the Habibie government marked the very first time a comprehensive bill regulating zakat was inserted in the statute book of Indonesia. The current chapter critically reviews the socio-political implications of post-New Order legal...
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Chapter 4Anticipating Life

Retsikas, Konstantinos

Pages: 105 –140

[The politics of developing a class of indigenous entrepreneurs, particularly through support to small enterprises, has long been a project of a loose group of urban Muslim intellectuals in Indonesia. Such actors have sought to put Islam into everyday practice by proposing, amongst other things,...
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Chapter 5Promising Deliverance

Retsikas, Konstantinos

Pages: 141 –176

[The chapter focuses on a specific zakat management body and its conduct of an experiment in the powers of Islamic micro-finance for bringing about change and prosperity to the poor. Importantly, the experiment employed zakat as a financial asset and an instrument for dispensing credit/debt. The...
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Chapter 6Contracting the Future

Retsikas, Konstantinos

Pages: 177 –211

[The chapter explores yet another Islamic micro-finance experiment. In focus is a multidimensional set of indeterminate relations articulated amongst four parties: a big multinational company in the process of discharging its corporate social responsibility, a highly valued Islamic welfare...
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Chapter 7Soliciting Time

Retsikas, Konstantinos

Pages: 213 –247

[The chapter articulates a critique of the anthropology of the gift and Derridean deconstruction from an ethnographic perspective, itself focusing on non-normative transfers of zakat. Theoretically, it advances the concept of soliciting: emerging from an ethnographic description of involuntary...
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Chapter 8Rewinding the Reel

Retsikas, Konstantinos

Pages: 249 –254

[As a relation of relata, the differential syntheses of time performed by the Indonesian state, the zakat management bodies and the stealthy, anonymous solicitors connect and communicate with one another within the duration marked by the transfer of value. Within such delimited period, the very...

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