Facilitating a researcher’s forum seeking to bring together Humanities scholars whose studies relate to philanthropy in the broadest sense. This includes for instance Biblical scholars studying the role of donations in maintaining shrines of worship, philosophers debating the ethics or political philosophy of contemporary philanthropy, historians of the Islamic Middle Ages working on religious-philanthropic institutions such as the Waqf, archeologists among whose findings one might find evidence of philanthropic practices in ancient cultures, arts scholars who discuss the role of patronage in the arts, and more.
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