Philanthropy for Muslims is almost second nature as it constitutes a basic article of faith. In the South African context, Muslims over the years have established formal and informal agencies to nurture the institution of charity. Muslims give to a diverse number of causes both within and outside of the community. This paper examines what motivates South African Muslims to give, the patterns of...

Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions. We explore the ecology of gifting by analysing data sets of individual gifts for a diverse group of institutions dedicated to education, medicine, art, public support, and religion. We find that th...

Samarinda is one of the most populous cities in East Kalimantan province. Some data which obtained from Central Statistics Agency Samarinda, they were recorded more than million people living here until 2020. Meanwhile, around 80% population Muslim. One pillars Islam that always done regularly every year paying zakat. By considering large potential for zakat this city very large. Professional m...

Dakwah in Indonesia has been growing nowadays. It is seen from the presence of preachers (da’i) and dakwah institutions organizations Indonesia. This article contributed to discourse charity Indonesia, especially social institution Teras Yogyakarta. In this context, about not much studied by previous scholars. Most studies on focus figure, institution, oral written dakwah, media, others. The ma...

charity (zakat) has different meanings; one is the literal meaning and the other is the religious one. his excellency ali (peace be upon him) paid his charity (zakat) while praying when he hears a poor man's words asking for help; he donated his signet. different poets have poems about this event.

Consumers consistently express a willingness to favor socially responsible firms, but will they actually pay more for products linked to charitable donations, green production, and similar activities? To answer this question, we analyze a novel data set that matches identical products sold on eBay via charity and non-charity auctions. Items sold through charity auctions have prices that are 6% ...

How do charitable donors respond to the third party ratings that signal the quality of charities? I investigate this question using a novel data set from Charity Navigator which provides quality ratings for 5400 charities. Since Charity Navigator prominently displays a charity’s star rating which is assigned based on its overall rating, one can identify the causal impact of a one star increase ...