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

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 345 pages) : illustrations Series SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East. 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 Summary Annotation A volume in the SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East Donald Quataert, editor Notes Based on papers presented at a conference held at University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies in May 2000 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Poverty -- Middle East -- Congresses Charity -- Congresses Islam -- Charities -- Congresses SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness. Charity Islam -- Charities Poverty Middle East Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Bonner, Michael, 1952-2019 Ener, Mine, 1965- Singer, Amy University of Michigan. Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. ISBN 1417531312 9781417531318 0791457389 9780791457382 0791457370 9780791457375 9780791486764 0791486761

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