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Umair Javed

Umair Javed

Dr. Umair Javed is Assistant Professor of Politics and Sociology at the Mushtaq Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS) at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2018, where he was a recipient of the LSE Centennial PhD Studentship.

His doctoral research focused on politics and practices of accumulation, and labour relations in Pakistan’s informal economy, with a specific focus on the retail-wholesale (bazaar) sector. More broadly, his research interests span various aspects of political participation, socio-economic development, and urban public life in South Asia. His academic work has been published in Economic and Political Weekly, Current History, and Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy. He has also contributed book chapters to volumes published by Routledge, Cambridge University Press, and the Australian National University Press. He is currently working on two major research projects: a cross-country study of contentious politics around energy access in low-income settlements in Pakistan, Mozambique, and Nigeria, with researchers at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex; and a comparative study of state welfare and citizen attitudes towards charity, taxation, and zakat in Egypt, Morrocco, and Pakistan with colleagues based at the International Centre for Taxation and Development (ICTD).

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Publication

Zakat Payments in Pakistan Exceed State Social Protection

ICTD Factsheet

Every year, hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world pay a proportion of their wealth as zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam mandating an annual payment of a proportion of an individual’s productive wealth, broadly representing 2.5 per cent. Consequently, zakat represents a...

Max Gallien
Max Gallien & 2 others

26 March 2025

Brief

Between God, the People, and the State: Citizen Conceptions of Zakat

ICTD Research in Brief 94

Zakat – one of the five pillars of Islam – is an annual obligatory payment, typically equivalent to 2.5 per cent of an individual’s productive wealth, to a set of appropriate recipients, including the poor. The annual global zakat pool is estimated to make up between US$200 billion and...

Max Gallien
Max Gallien & 2 others

1 September 2023

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