Islamic Public Value: Theory, Practice, and Administration of Indigenous Cooperative Institutions(Policy, Administrative and Institutional Change series)

This insightful book examines the public value aspects of Non-Western Public Administration (NWPA) and establishes the presence of Islamic Public Administration in NWPA. It investigates how Islamic institutions across state, local, and community levels collaborate to meet societal needs, foster inclusion, and enhance public value. Renowned experts propose faith-based perspectives to the field of public value and present diverse research into the relationship between religion and public administration. Chapters discuss Islamic indigenous governance institutions as functional examples of Islamic public administration and as existing alternatives to dominant global-Western models. They highlight historical cases of Islamic governance and administration that demonstrate practical approaches and solutions in contemporary society. The book’s international case studies span Muslim-majority and -minority contexts based on ethnographic fieldwork and provide an empirical basis for the book’s thought-provoking arguments. Islamic Public Value is a vital resource for students and academics in politics, public administration, regulation and governance and Islamic studies. Its exploration of non-Western governance models also makes it an essential guide for practitioners and policymakers in public management and policy.

Table of Contents:
Contents What is and why do we study Islamic Public Value? An introduction 1 Wolfgang Drechsler, Salah Chafik and Rainer Kattel 1 Emerging perspectives: positive public administration and Islamic public value 20 Janine O’Flynn and Sophie Yates 2 Case selection and case research: the case of Islamic Public Administration 32 B. Guy Peters 3 Sociology of Islamic public administration: ethnographic and socio-legal perspectives 38 Rustamjon Urinboyev 4 The academic field of Islamic public administration: theory and practice during the last half-century 54 Iulia Lumina and Mahmud Mohammady PART I HISTORICAL CASES 5 Irrigation practices in Valencia and the context of an Islamic social framework 69 Karim Lahham 6 Islamic Public Value: biy soty in Kazakhstan 83 Assel Mussagulova 7 The ethics of giving in the Ottoman Empire 98 Hüseyin Yılmaz PART II CONTEMPORARY CASES 8 Vakuf Administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Closer Look at the Islamska zajednica u Bosni i Hercegovini and New Vakuf Directorate 112 Joseph J. Kaminski, Mustafa Krupalija and Hamza Preljević 9 On women and zawāyā in Morocco: the enduring legacy of the 18th-century saint Lady Taallat today 128 Salah Chafik and Reda Mokhtar El Ftouh 10 The Majlis al-shura Tradition in Islamic Public Administration 147 Leslie A. Pal and Abdulfatah Said Mohamed 11 Social ministers of care (khādims): Islamic higher education in Britain 176 Haroon Sidat 12 The Chinese Xidaotang: a Chinese Islamic example of good public administration 193 Jiang Xiaokun and Chao Ma 13 Islamic institutions in the shadows, margins and intersections: an exploration in Nepal 215 Shobhit Shakya 14 The Role of Darbars (Sufi shrines in Pakistan) in the shadow of government (Auqaf) 236 Abiha Zahra and Aneeqa Suhail 15 The impregnable fortress of Islamic public administration in Central Asia: Mahalla institutions in Uzbekistan 255 Rustamjon Urinboyev 16 The role of Islamic education in building of Islamic public value of multicultural citizenship in southern Thailand 280 Imtiyaz Yusuf and Arthit Thongin 17 Infusing indigenous Islamic values into western-style public administration in Indonesia: the role of pesantren institutions 308 Eko Prasojo, Zuliansyah P. Zulkarnain, Julyan Ferdiansyah, Debie Puspasari and Defny Holidin 18 Non-western philosophy and public administration: public service provision in Nagari Minangkabau, Indonesia 336 Rio Yusri Maulana, Moh. Arief Rakhman, Mhd. Alfahjri Sukri and Makmun Wahid PART III REFLECTIONS 19 The contribution of the Islamic public value project to a research programme on the relationship between religion and public administration 360 Edoardo Ongaro and Michele Tantardini 20 The light and shade of Islamic public value 370 Catherine Althaus 21 Staying the course: how contemporary Islamic indigenous governance institutions carry forth an anticolonial tradition 379 Salah Chafik

About the Author :
Edited by Wolfgang Drechsler, Professor of Governance, Ragnar Nurkse Department, TalTech, Estonia, Honorary Professor, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, UK and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, Salah Chafik, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, UK and Visiting Research Fellow, Ragnar Nurkse Department, TalTech, Estonia and Rainer Kattel, Professor of Innovation and Public Governance and Deputy Director, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, UK

Review :
‘This book provides a unique understanding of Islamic public value and explores the reasons behind operating “century-old” community-based institutions that still exist to deliver quality public services. The collection covers a wide variety of topics and would be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of public administration, public policy, non-profit management, political science, and sociology.’