<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/424a0713-66de-4d76-b7e6-f11c93d4c321/C1C2DFD9-2BA8-4DE2-B88C-C4FF5F843804/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://islam101.amplify.com/2009/05/07/the-philanthropic-tradition-is-as-old-as-islam-itself/" href="http://islam101.amplify.com/2009/05/07/the-philanthropic-tradition-is-as-old-as-islam-itself/" style="font-size: 11px;">islam101.amplify.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://islam101.amplify.com/2009/05/07/the-philanthropic-tradition-is-as-old-as-islam-itself/"><DIV class="Clog_Middle_Wrap"><BLOCKQUOTE cite="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=1083956" class="Clog_Content_Item"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD>The philanthropic tradition is as old as Islam itself. This is one of the principal messages of Prof. Amy Singer’s sweeping survey of the subject, “Charity in Islamic Societies” (Cambridge University Press, 246 pages, $33).</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV class="Clog_Content_Hr"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE cite="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=1083956" class="Clog_Content_Item"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD>Singer, a Princeton-educated professor of Ottoman history at Tel Aviv University, says in the book’s introduction that she was in part motivated to write it because, since September 11, 2001, “Muslim charity has… received some very bad press, with analysts and observers frequently emphasizing the links between charity and extremist violence.”</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV class="Clog_Content_Hr"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE cite="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=1083956" class="Clog_Content_Item"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD>But charity is an integral part of every Muslim’s life, with one of several types of charitable giving in the faith, zakat (the obligatory alms tax), belonging to the five pillars of Islamic practice.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV class="Clog_Content_Hr"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE cite="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=1083956" class="Clog_Content_Item"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD>As the book demonstrates with copious examples from the 1,400-year history of the Muslim world, acts of philanthropy turn up at every level of society<SPAN class="Clog_Source_Button"><A href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=1083956" title="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=1083956" target="_blank" rel="external">Read more at www.haaretz.com</A></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C1C2DFD9-2BA8-4DE2-B88C-C4FF5F843804/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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