Giving while Muslim: How Ramadan philanthropy has changed from 9/11 to COVID-19
Twenty years after 9/11, American Muslims’ giving priorities have shifted to funding civil rights and social justice movements at home.
Worshippers, socially distanced due to COVID-19 concerns, bow in prayer at the Islamic Society of Boston during the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, April 16, 2021, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
May 5, 2021
(RNS) — In Ramadan, Muslims famously join in fasting. But this holy month on the lunar calendar, which this year falls between April 12 and May 12, is also a time of charitable giving through acts known as zakat and sadaqa. There is a hadith