For Humanity Or For The Umma? Aid and Islam in Transnational Muslim NGOs

 1.Introduction: Studying Transnational Muslim NGOs --
Transnational Muslim NGOs: Faith-based organisations or fronts for terrorism? --
Actors and meanings --
Processes of Islamisation --
Ideologies of aid --
Aid cultures --
Sacralised and secularised aid --
Structure of the book --
2.The Cultures of Development and Islamic Aid --
A common humanity: A brief history of development aid --
Solidarity with the umma: A brief history of Islamic aid --
Dichotomies of aid? Comparing the cultures of development and Islamic aid --
3.Trajectories of Transnational Muslim NGOs --
Competition: Transnational Muslim NGOs in the Horn of Africa --
Conflicts: Transnational Muslim NGOs in Afghanistan --
Co-existence: Transnational Muslim NGOs in Bosnia --
A new situation: 9/11 and the `War on Terror' --
Navigating between cultures --
4.Piety and Professionalism: Claims to Authority in IIROSA and IICO --
Designations and financial decline. IICO and IIROSA after 9/11 Note continued: Islamic dignitaries and pious Muslims --
Islamic authority: `Because of believing in God...' --
Professional authority: `Our activities are transparent' --
Running a health clinic or working in an Islamic organisation? --
5.`It's all in Islam!' Aid Ideologies in IIROSA and IICO --
Visions of aid --
The rationale of aid: A religious duty and a moral responsibility --
Strategies of aid: Relief, da'wa, education, and empowerment --
A sacralised aid? --
6.Professionalism and (a bit of) Piety: Claims to Authority in Islamic Relief and Muslim Aid --
Fame and new funding opportunities: Islamic Relief and Muslim Aid after 9/11 --
Islamic personalities and young professionals --
Professional authority: `Working towards international standards' --
Islamic authority: `The humanitarian spirit of Islam' --
`In faith-based organisations, you will never get 100 per cent professionalism' Note continued: 7.`What's so Islamic about Us?': Ideologies of Aid in Islamic Relief and Muslim Aid --
Visions of aid --
The rationale of aid --
Strategies of aid --
A secularised aid? --
8.Conclusion --
Studying transnational Muslim NGOs --
Cultures of aid: Development and Islamic aid --
Trajectories of transnational Muslim NGOs --
Sacralised or secularised aid? --
Developmentalising Islamic aid and Islamising development aid --
The emergence of new aid cultures? --
Appendix A Methodology --
Collection of data --
The challenges of multi-sited fieldwork --
Questions of positioning: Studying the familiar and the foreign --
Accessing transnational Muslim NGOs --
Appendix B Organisational Material --
B1.Organisational Material, IIROSA --
B2.Organisational Material, IICO --
B3.Organisational Material, Islamic Relief --
B4.Organisational Material, Muslim Aid --
Appendix C Field Trips, Interviews and Project Visits --
C1.Field Trips --
C2.Interviews --
C3.Project Visits.