Growth and Context
The essential concept utilized by Muslims in projecting their social, economic, and political activities. This concept refers to the worldwide Islamic community whose welfare Gulf charities seek to support.
What is Umma
This country is the world’s largest Muslim-majority country and a major focus of the article.
What is Indonesia?
This UAE-based organization is commonly abbreviated AMCF.
What is the Asian Muslim Charity Foundation?
Meaning religious propagation, this term describes a major activity supported by Gulf charities.
What is dakwah?
Gulf charities commonly provide this type of assistance after earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons.
What is disaster relief?
This event led to increased scrutiny and the shutdown of some Islamic charitable organizations.
What is 9/11
The 2004 disaster in this Indonesian region attracted major Gulf charity involvement.
What is the tsunami in Aceh?
This Qatari organization focuses on sustainable development, preparedness, and disaster response.
What is Qatar Charity?
AMCF supported these higher education institutions specializing in Arabic and Islamic studies.
What are Ma‘had ‘Ali?
Thai authorities worried that charitable funding in Pattani could support rebels or contribute to this.
Radicalism
Marie-Juul Petersen’s term for adapting Islamic aid to international development practices.
What is “developmentalizing Islamic aid”
In this country, authorities viewed Gulf funding to Muslim communities in Pattani with suspicion because of an ongoing conflict.
What is Thailand?
This organization helped establish AMCF through an agreement with the Dar al-Bir Society.
What is Muhammadiyah?
Known as SDITs, these full-day schools offer an alternative to traditional boarding schools and conventional state schools.
What are integrated Islamic schools?
According to the article, Muslim NGOs can become these actors when others suspect their aid serves broader religious or political goals
What are political actors?
These Gulf states are especially associated with funding Islamic charitable organizations in Southeast Asia.
What are the oil-rich or “petrodollar” states
This island region of the Philippines received poverty-alleviation and housing projects from Gulf-supported organizations.
What is Mindanao?
This organization sent aid to the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan.
What is the Mohammad Bin Rashid Charity and Humanitarian Establishment?
AMCF’s Ma‘had ‘Ali institutions concentrate on Islamic studies and this language.
What is Arabic?
Gulf charities’ support for religious and social activities helped shape Muslim social activism as well as these two orientations.
What are religious and political orientations?
The article identifies these two broad factors as driving the growth of Gulf charities in Southeast Asia.
What is umma and the modernization of Islamic aid
This 2013 disaster prompted the Mohammad Bin Rashid Charity and Humanitarian Establishment to send aid to the Philippines.
What is Typhoon Haiyan?
Sustainable development, preparedness, and disaster response were the three main programs of this organization.
Qatari Charity
AMCF’s Ma‘had ‘Ali institutions trained these religious speakers, some of whom were sent to Indonesia’s outer islands for missionary work.
What are preachers?
The author uses this term for the cultural closeness that helped Gulf charities gain acceptance among domestic civil society organizations.
What is cultural propinquity?