Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt

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BUILDING A HOUSE IN HEAVEN This page intentionally left blank Building a House in Heaven • • • • Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt Mona Atia University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Portions of chapter 2 were previously published as “‘Innocent Victims’: An Accounting of Anti-Terrorism in the Egyptian Legal Context,” Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law 9, no. 1 (2011): 1–24. Portions of chapters 3 and 6 were previously published as “A Way to Paradise: Pious Neoliberalism, Islam, and Faith-Based Development,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102, no. 4 (2012): 808–27; reprinted by permission of the publisher. Copyright 2013 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu A Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-0-8166-8915-6 (hc) ISBN 978-0-8166-8917-0 (pb) Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Sponsored by Quadrant’s Global Cultures group (advisory board: Evelyn Davidheiser, Michael Goldman, Helga Leitner, and Margaret Werry), and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. Quadrant is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. http://quadrant.umn.edu Quadrant, a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, provides support for interdisciplinary scholarship within a new, more collabortive model of research and publication. To the martyrs, who gave their lives fighting for a better future for all Egyptians and the revolutionaries who continue the struggle. This page intentionally left blank ...