section 1. What is philanthropy? -- section 2. Philanthropy across time and place -- section 3. Being a philanthropist : callings and critiques -- section 4. Philanthropists and beneficiaries : a complex relationship -- section 5. Philanthropic practices and institutions -- section 6. Debates...

"This book focuses on the influence of philanthropic foundations in global development, and on how the global south has engaged with them. The idea of corporate philanthropy stretches back a long way, with the late 19th industrialist Andrew Carnegie seeing it as an important obligation of the...

The institution of Waqf has played a significant role of providing opportunities in sharing the government's fiscal needs and improving the communities and nation welfare throughout Islamic history. Waqf have a potential to became one of the important devices regarding the socioeconomics realms...

Corporation foundation is one of the most popular tools for Chinese corporations and entrepreneurs to carry out their charitable activities. However, do these foundations play a role in the development of Chinese civil society and in what ways? Followed by a brief introduction on the history,...

Chapter 1. The Shari'ah economic objectives and Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter 2. The Islamic social finance : from instruments to institutions -- Chapter 3. SDGs : the intersection between Islamic finance and Islamic social finance -- Chapter 4. Cash Waqf investment accounts meeting...

The investment decision confronting managers of multi-asset class portfolios can be characterized in terms of the passive (i.e., benchmark or policy) and active (i.e., market timing and security selection) strategies they adopt. In this paper, we investigate whether managers select the...