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  • 1 - Islamic Funeral Funds and the Moral Economy of Repatriation

  • Osman Balkan, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Dying Abroad
    Published online:
    30 March 2023
    Print publication:
    06 April 2023, pp 52-83

  • Summary

    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.