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Titolo: | Poverty and charity in Middle Eastern contexts [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Bonner, Mine Ener, Amy Singer |
Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | ix, 345 p. : ill |
Disciplina: | 362.5/0956 |
Soggetto topico: | Poverty - Middle East |
Charity - Middle East | |
Islam - Charities | |
Altri autori: | BonnerMichael David EnerMine <1965-> SingerAmy |
Note generali: | Based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies in May 2000. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- POVERTY AND CHARITY IN MIDDLE EASTERN CONTEXTS -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- Part I: Entitlement and Obligation -- 1. Poverty and Charity in the Rise of Islam by Michael Bonner -- 2. Status-Based Definitions of Need in Early Islamic Zakat and Maintenance Laws by Ingrid Mattson -- 3. The Foreign Jewish Poor in Medieval Egypt by Mark R. Cohen -- 4. "Prices Are in God's Hands": The Theory and Practice of Price Control in the Medieval Islamic World by Adam Sabra -- Part II: Institutions -- 5. The Functional Aspects of Medieval Islamic Hospitals by Yasser Tabbaa -- 6. Charity and Hospitality: Hospitals in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period by Miri Shefer -- 7. Charity, the Poor, and Distribution of Alms in Ottoman Algiers by Miriam Hoexter -- Part III: The State as Benefactor -- 8. Living on the Margins of Charity: Coping with Poverty in an Ottoman Provincial City by Eyal Ginio -- 9. The Charity of the Khedive by Mine Ener -- 10. Imperial Gifts and Sultanic Legitimation during the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909 by Nadir Ă–zbek -- Part IV: Changing Worlds -- 11. Al-Tahtawi on Poverty and Welfare by Juan R. I. Cole -- 12. Islam, Philanthropy, and Political Culture in Interwar Egypt: The Activism of Labiba Ahmad by Beth Baron -- 13. "The Child Question": The Politics of Child Welfare in Early Republican Turkey by Kathryn Libal -- Part V: Welfare as Politics -- 14. Islamic Redistribution through Zakat: Historical Record and Modern Realities by Timur Kuran -- 15. Charity's Legacies: A Reconsideration of Ottoman Imperial Endowment-Making by Amy Singer -- Conclusion by Natalie Zemon Davis -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- SUNY series in the Social and Economic History. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Addresses the ideals and institutions through which Middle Eastern societies have confronted poverty and the poor. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Poverty and charity in Middle Eastern contexts |
ISBN: | 0-7914-8676-1 |
1-4175-3131-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819907303321 |
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