zakat
69% of US Muslims always give to charities during Ramadan, fulfilling a religious obligation
By Shariq Siddiqui — March 29, 2024
(The Conversation) — During the month-long period of fasting, the obligation of zakat takes on heightened significance.
How Muslim Americans meet their charitable obligations: 3 findings from new research
By Micah A. Hughes, Rafeel Wasif, and Shariq Siddiqui — April 25, 2022
(The Conversation) — The kind of giving known as Zakat can include everything from donating to nonprofits to smiling at strangers.
What is Zakat? A scholar of Islam explains
By Iqbal Akhtar — November 16, 2021
(The Conversation) — Zakat, or charity, is a fundamental practice within the Islamic faith.
Giving while Muslim: How Ramadan philanthropy has changed from 9/11 to COVID-19
By Muhi Khwaja — May 5, 2021
(RNS) — Twenty years after 9/11, American Muslims’ giving priorities have shifted to funding civil rights and social justice movements at home.
Across America, Muslims are becoming a fixture on the disaster relief landscape
By Aysha Khan — November 9, 2020
(RNS) — Muslim American philanthropies are increasingly turning their volunteer efforts to emergency relief projects in the U.S.
Muslim generosity in Ramadan is more than a feel-good story
By Simran Jeet Singh — May 22, 2020
(RNS) — Stories of Muslims helping people during the pandemic imply that their generosity is anomalous. In fact, it's part of the foundation of Islam.
Top Muslim leaders launch grant initiative to protect imams from layoffs
By Aysha Khan — April 15, 2020
(RNS) — With mosques’ biggest fundraisers of the year in jeopardy, a new initiative led by four prominent imams aims to protect the livelihoods of mosque staff around the country.
During Ramadan, growing Muslim philanthropy enters the spotlight
By Aysha Khan — June 1, 2019
(RNS) — Many Muslim-run charity groups are drawing a connection between their philanthropic causes, the Ramadan fast and the Islamic imperative to give to the poor.
As cities re-examine bail, Muslims launch a Ramadan fund to pay it
By Aysha Khan — May 16, 2018
(RNS) — Believers Bail Out aims to raise awareness about the injustices of the prison system by asking Muslims to give zakat to their incarcerated brothers and sisters in faith.
Terrorist group al-Shabab delivers food relief to drought-stricken Somalia
By Fredrick Nzwili — March 31, 2017
(RNS) It is not clear where the group is getting the aid, but its own network of sponsors and sympathizers are believed to be donating. Protection money and extortion are also believed to be funding the relief effort.
In India, a group defends wrongly accused Muslim terror suspects
By Bhavya Dore — January 30, 2017
MUMBAI (RNS) Young Muslim men in India nabbed on false terror charges has been a recurring problem through the years, often attributed to ingrained biases of the police.
Trump should heed French economist Piketty and levy an Islamic tax
By Tahir Nasser — November 22, 2016
(RNS) Thomas Piketty advocated for the kind of tax that would help the working class that elected Donald Trump. The bad news for the president-elect is that it is a solution that has actually been a part of Islam for the past 1,400 years in what is known as zakat.
Survey: UK Muslims give more to charity than Jews, Christians
By Trevor Grundy — July 24, 2013
(RNS) The survey shows the U.K.’s estimated 280,000 Muslims report giving more money annually to charity than Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and Jews.
Muslim group, CAIR, regains tax-exempt status
By Bob Smietana — July 30, 2012
(RNS) The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim civil rights group that has frequently drawn fire from conservatives, has regained its tax-exempt status. By Bob Smietana.
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