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1 - Islamic Funeral Funds and the Moral Economy of Repatriation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2023

Osman Balkan
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University of Pennsylvania
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This chapter examines the work of the two largest and most important Islamic funeral funds in Europe, whose combined membership is nearly 400,000. Administered by longstanding and well-established Turkish Islamic associations, DITIB and IGMG, these funds first emerged in Western Europe in the 1990s with the aging of the first generation of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe and the growing need for culturally and religiously appropriate funerary services. Drawing on interviews with fund administrators and close readings of primary sources such as promotional literature and membership contracts, this chapter elucidates the strategies through which DITIBs and IGMGs funeral funds institutionalize, incentivize, and justify posthumous repatriation for burial.

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Dying Abroad
The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe
, pp. 52 - 83
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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