Wealth and Piety: Middle Eastern Perspectives for Expat Workers

Your supporters consider you saintly and self—sacrificing. Your Middle Eastern friends might beg to differ. So might God. In this book, Dr. Shaw tackles the elephant in the room. Wealth and Piety explores biblical and Arab cultural expectations for getting, using, talking about, and giving money.

This book contains hundreds of verbatim observations about local and foreign wealth by thirty—five Middle Easterners from nine countries, representing all major religious groups. These comments are...