Nada Moumtaz is Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Her research stands at the intersection of Islamic legal studies, the anthropology of Islam, studies of capitalism, and urban studies and spans the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries in the Levant. Her book God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State will be out in spring 2021.