Horizon 1 1 5 OS CH : Chapitres d'ouvrages scientifiques Social policy in the islamic world International Series on Public Policy 63-82 SYRIE IRAN LIBAN EGYPTE 2020 Cham Palgrave Macmillan fdi:010096553 ENG 10.1007/978-3-030-57753-7_4 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010096553 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2026-02/010096553.pdf Horizon (IRD) Since the 1990s, in the context of states' reconfiguration, beneficence has become a powerful ethic and repertoire of action that spans all social spaces. A growing number of actors resort to this notion while claiming to act for 'the good' of the 'poor,' the 'weak 'or 'the dependent'. In this chapter, we argue that the study of beneficence, understood as a socio-historically constructed realm of encounters and conflicts, offers a stimulating point of entry into understanding contemporary social policies in the Islamic world. We first highlight the complex and ever changing relations between the 'doing good' actors and practices and the State and then explore the multiple logics that their everyday interactions may generate. 106PROSO ; 112RELIG ; 095DEVEL ; 114VIPOL