A Synthesis of Time [electronic resource] : Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia / by Konstantinos Retsikas.

By: Retsikas, Konstantinos [author.]Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service)Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020Edition: 1st ed. 2020Description: XI, 274 p. 1 illus. in color. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783030349332Subject(s): Ethnology | Ethnography | Finance, Public—Islamic countries | Ethnology—Asia | Social Anthropology | Ethnography | Islamic Finance | Asian Culture | Cultural AnthropologyAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 306 LOC classification: GN301-674Online resources: Click here to access online

Contents:

1. Dis-closing Intervals -- 2. Dividing the Present -- 3. Justifying Law -- 4. Anticipating Life -- 5. Promising Deliverance -- 6. Contracting the Future -- 7. Soliciting Time -- 8. Rewinding the Reel.

In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: This book is an anthropological investigation into the different forms the economy assumes, and the different purposes it serves, when conceived from the perspective of Islamic micro-finance as a field of everyday practice. It is based on long-term ethnographic research in Java, Indonesia, with Islamic foundations active in managing zakat and other charitable funds, for purposes of poverty alleviation. The book explores the social foundations of contemporary Islamic practices that strive to encompass the economic within an expanded domain of divine worship and elucidates the effects such encompassment has on time, its fissure and synthesis. In order to elaborate on the question of time, the book looks beyond anthropology and Islamic studies, engaging attentively, critically and productively with the post-structuralist work of G. Deleuze, M. Foucault and J. Derrida, three of the most important figures of the temporal turn in contemporary philosophy.

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This book is an anthropological investigation into the different forms the economy assumes, and the different purposes it serves, when conceived from the perspective of Islamic micro-finance as a field of everyday practice. It is based on long-term ethnographic research in Java, Indonesia, with Islamic foundations active in managing zakat and other charitable funds, for purposes of poverty alleviation. The book explores the social foundations of contemporary Islamic practices that strive to encompass the economic within an expanded domain of divine worship and elucidates the effects such encompassment has on time, its fissure and synthesis. In order to elaborate on the question of time, the book looks beyond anthropology and Islamic studies, engaging attentively, critically and productively with the post-structuralist work of G. Deleuze, M. Foucault and J. Derrida, three of the most important figures of the temporal turn in contemporary philosophy.