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Giving while Muslim: How Ramadan philanthropy has changed from 9/11 to COVID-19


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 ....

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