Geographies of the Islamic world manifest stark disparities in terms of social and economic development. While some of the countries of the Ummah (Islamic community) benefited from Western donors and their development aid, there have been efforts to build endogenous capacity. A relatively well-known example is the case of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), one of the major but not the only actor in Islamic development assistance. This study is an attempt to showcase Islamic development aid emanating from the Ummah, its geographical and organizational fractions and conditions. Islamic aid is intrinsically informal by nature and its informal functioning is a fundamental reason for its dual relation with their Western counterparts. Born to embody the Islamic alternative to Western multilateral development cooperation, Islamic and Western aid institutions are similar when it comes to sectoral priorities and to their geographical focus. Islamic aid is turning to sub-Saharan Africa, where the poorest and most vulnerable populations and some strategic priorities (like terrorist groups and the refugee crisis) for global governance are. Gulf countries are a peculiar and critical OIC sub-group: they are the larger donors within the OIC and also individually through bilateral cooperation.
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December 01 2018
Development Aid in Tumultuous Times: A Perspective from Muslim Geographies
M. Evren Tok;
M. Evren Tok
College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Al Minaretein, Office, Floor 4. PO BOX 34100, Education City, Doha Qatar
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Cristina D'Alessandro
Cristina D'Alessandro
Centre on Governance, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, 120 University Social Sciences Building, Ottawa, Ontario K1N6N5 Canada
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The Arab World Geographer (2018) 21 (4): 331–347.
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M. Evren Tok, Cristina D'Alessandro; Development Aid in Tumultuous Times: A Perspective from Muslim Geographies. The Arab World Geographer 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 331–347. doi: https://doi.org/10.5555/1480-6800-21.4.331
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