Charity and giving in monotheistic religion / edited by Miriam Frenkel and Yaacov Lev.

Other author Frenkel, Miriam.
Other author Lev, Yaacov.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter,
Descriptionxvi, 413 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Generosity.
Generosity--Religious aspects.
Monotheism.
Charity.

SeriesStudien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients, 1862-1295 ; n.F., Bd. 22
Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients (2004) ; n.F., Bd. 22. ^A592433
Contents Introduction -- The world of late antiquity and early middle ages -- The early Byzantine State and the Christian ideal of voluntary poverty / Avshalom Laniado -- Charitable ministrations (diakoniai), monasticism, and the social aesthetic of sixth-century byzantium / Daniel Caner -- Charity and piety as Episcopal and imperial virtues in late antiquity / Claudia Rapp -- Healing the world with righteousness? : the language of social justice in early Christian homilies / Susan R. Holman -- Almsgiving, donatio pro anima and eucharistic offering in the early middle ages of Western Eeurope (4th-9th century) / Eliana Magnani -- Medieval Islam -- Christian pious foundations as an element of continuity between late antiquity and Islam / Johannes Pahlitzsch -- Charity and piety for the transformation of the cities : the new direction in taxation and waqf policy in mid-twelfth-century Syria and Northern Mesopotamia / Stefan Heidemann -- Piety and charity in late medieval Egypt and Syria / Yehoshua Frenkel -- Forms and functions of charity in Al-Andalus / Ana María Carballeira Debasa -- "When death will fall upon him" : charitable legacies in 15th century Granada / Amalia Zomeño -- Charity and gift giving in medieval Islam / Yaacov Lev -- Charity and repentance in medieval Islamic thought and practice / Daniella Talmon-Heller -- The Jewish world -- Geniza documents for the comparative history of poverty and charity / Mark R. Cohen -- Charity in Jewish society of the medieval Mediterranean world / Miriam Frenkel -- Benefaction (niʻma), gratitude (shukr), and the politics of giving and receiving in letters from the Cairo Geniza / Marina Rustow -- An indigent scholar's plea for charity : a Geniza letter / Yvonne Friedman.
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LCCN 2009004216
ISBN9783110209464 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN3110209462 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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