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

Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Descriptionix, 345 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Poverty--Middle East. --Congresses.
Charity--Middle East. --Congresses.
Islam--Charities. --Congresses.

Other author/creatorBonner, Michael, 1952-2019
Other author/creatorEner, Mine, 1965-
Other author/creatorSinger, Amy.
Other author/creatorUniversity of Michigan. Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies.
SeriesSUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East
SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East. ^A279841
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 Özbek -- 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.
General noteBased on papers presented at a conference held at University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies in May 2000.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002042629
ISBN0791457389 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0791457370 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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