The role of social service in addressing the problem of begging: a field study of the phenomenon of begging in the city of Mosul

Section: Research Paper
Published
Mar 1, 1991
Pages
405-430

Abstract

The phenomenon of begging is one of the social phenomena that human societies have known from their early ages to the present. It is well known that human experience that includes providing types of assistance and benefits to the needy from the poor and orphans is an experience that extends in the depths of human history and reflects religious and moral values documented by the kinship ties of small homogeneous societies with primary relationships. In the Arab Islamic society, the principles of the Islamic religion constitute a basis for social integration between individuals and groups. The true Islamic religion urged the care of orphans, questioners and the sick, and Zakat funds played a positive role in deepening these values. In addition, the social solidarity of kinship units based on common lineage (the large family, the thigh, the tribe, the clan) played an important role in facing many of the problems that have become widespread today, as the cases of orphans, poverty and old age were faced by the obligations imposed by those relationships .

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Al-falahy, H. (1991). The role of social service in addressing the problem of begging: a field study of the phenomenon of begging in the city of Mosul. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 21(22), 405–430. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.1991.165496