Growth and Context
Places and Crisis
Organizations
Education & Dakwah
Aid & Politics
100

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

100

This country is the world’s largest Muslim-majority country and a major focus of the article.

What is Indonesia?

100

This UAE-based organization is commonly abbreviated AMCF.

What is the Asian Muslim Charity Foundation?

100

Meaning religious propagation, this term describes a major activity supported by Gulf charities.


What is dakwah?

100

Gulf charities commonly provide this type of assistance after earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons.

What is disaster relief?

200

This event led to increased scrutiny and the shutdown of some Islamic charitable organizations.

What is 9/11

200

The 2004 disaster in this Indonesian region attracted major Gulf charity involvement.

What is the tsunami in Aceh?

200

This Qatari organization focuses on sustainable development, preparedness, and disaster response.

What is Qatar Charity?

200

AMCF supported these higher education institutions specializing in Arabic and Islamic studies.

What are Ma‘had ‘Ali?

200

Thai authorities worried that charitable funding in Pattani could support rebels or contribute to this.

Radicalism

300

Marie-Juul Petersen’s term for adapting Islamic aid to international development practices.

What is “developmentalizing Islamic aid”

300

In this country, authorities viewed Gulf funding to Muslim communities in Pattani with suspicion because of an ongoing conflict. 

What is Thailand?

300

This organization helped establish AMCF through an agreement with the Dar al-Bir Society.

What is Muhammadiyah?

300

Known as SDITs, these full-day schools offer an alternative to traditional boarding schools and conventional state schools.

What are integrated Islamic schools?

300

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?

400

These Gulf states are especially associated with funding Islamic charitable organizations in Southeast Asia.

What are the oil-rich or “petrodollar” states

400

This island region of the Philippines received poverty-alleviation and housing projects from Gulf-supported organizations.

What is Mindanao?

400

This organization sent aid to the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan.

What is the Mohammad Bin Rashid Charity and Humanitarian Establishment?

400

AMCF’s Ma‘had ‘Ali institutions concentrate on Islamic studies and this language. 

What is Arabic?

400

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?

500

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

500

This 2013 disaster prompted the Mohammad Bin Rashid Charity and Humanitarian Establishment to send aid to the Philippines.

What is Typhoon Haiyan?

500

Sustainable development, preparedness, and disaster response were the three main programs of this organization.

Qatari Charity

500

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?

500

The author uses this term for the cultural closeness that helped Gulf charities gain acceptance among domestic civil society organizations.


What is cultural propinquity?