Poverty and charity in Middle Eastern contexts / edited by Michael Bonner, Mine Ener, Amy Singer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle EastPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.Description: ix, 345 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0791457389 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0791457370 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC 415.15.Z9 P67 2003
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Contents:
Poverty and charity in the rise of Islam / Michael Bonner -- Status-based definitions of need in early Islamic Zakat and maintenance laws / Ingrid Mattson -- The foreign Jewish poor in medieval Egypt / Mark R. Cohen -- "Prices are in God's hands" : the theory and practice of price control in the medieval Islamic world / Adam Sabra -- The functional aspects of medieval Islamic hospitals / Yasser Tabbaa -- Charity and hospitality : hospitals in the Ottoman empire in the early modern period / Miri Shefer -- Charity, the poor, and distribution of alms in Ottoman Algiers / Miriam Hoexter -- Living on the margins of charity : coping with poverty in an Ottoman provincial city / Eyal Ginio -- The charity of the Khedive / Mine Ener -- Imperial gifts and sultanic legitimation during the late Ottoman empire, 1876-1909 / Nadir ???�zbek -- Al-Tahtawi on poverty and welfare / Juan R.I. Cole -- Islam, philanthropy, and political culture in interwar Egypt : the activism of Labiba Ahmad / Beth Baron -- "The child question" : the politics of child welfare in early republican Turkey / Kathryn Libal -- Islamic redistribution through Zakat : historical record and modern realities / Timur Kuran --Charity's legacies : reconsideration of Ottoman imperial endowment-making / Amy Singer.
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Based on papers presented at a conference held at University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies in May 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Poverty and charity in the rise of Islam / Michael Bonner -- Status-based definitions of need in early Islamic Zakat and maintenance laws / Ingrid Mattson -- The foreign Jewish poor in medieval Egypt / Mark R. Cohen -- "Prices are in God's hands" : the theory and practice of price control in the medieval Islamic world / Adam Sabra -- The functional aspects of medieval Islamic hospitals / Yasser Tabbaa -- Charity and hospitality : hospitals in the Ottoman empire in the early modern period / Miri Shefer -- Charity, the poor, and distribution of alms in Ottoman Algiers / Miriam Hoexter -- Living on the margins of charity : coping with poverty in an Ottoman provincial city / Eyal Ginio -- The charity of the Khedive / Mine Ener -- Imperial gifts and sultanic legitimation during the late Ottoman empire, 1876-1909 / Nadir ???�zbek -- Al-Tahtawi on poverty and welfare / Juan R.I. Cole -- Islam, philanthropy, and political culture in interwar Egypt : the activism of Labiba Ahmad / Beth Baron -- "The child question" : the politics of child welfare in early republican Turkey / Kathryn Libal -- Islamic redistribution through Zakat : historical record and modern realities / Timur Kuran --Charity's legacies : reconsideration of Ottoman imperial endowment-making / Amy Singer.

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