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Author:   Michael Bonner ,  Mine Ener ,  Amy Singer
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
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9780791457375

ISBN 10:   0791457370
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   17 July 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Note to the Reader Introduction Part I: Entitlement and Obligation 1. Poverty and Charity in the Rise of Islam Michael Bonner 2. Status-Based Definitions of Need in Early Islamic Zakat and Maintenance Laws Ingrid Mattson 3. The Foreign Jewish Poor in Medieval Egypt Mark R. Cohen 4 ""Prices Are in God's Hands"": The Theory and Practice of Price Control in the Medieval Islamic World Adam Sabra Part II: Institutions 5. The Functional Aspects of Medieval Islamic Hospitals Yasser Tabbaa 6. Charity and Hospitality: Hospitals in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period Miri Shefer 7. Charity, the Poor, and Distribution of Alms in Ottoman Algiers Miriam Hoexter Part III: The State as Benefactor 8. Living on the Margins of Charity: Coping with Poverty in an Ottoman Provincial City Eyal Ginio 9. The Charity of the Khedive Mine Ener 10. Imperial Gifts and Sultanic Legitimation during the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876--1909 Nadir Ozbek Part IV: Changing Worlds 11. Al-Tahtawi on Poverty and Welfare Juan R. I. Cole 12. Islam, Philanthropy, and Political Culture in Interwar Egypt: The Activism of Labiba Ahmad Beth Baron 13. ""The Child Question"": The Politics of Child Welfare in Early Republican Turkey Kathryn Libal Part V: Welfare as Politics 14. Islamic Redistribution through Zakat: Historical Record and Modern Realities Timur Kuran 15. Charity's Legacies: Reconsideration of Ottoman Imperial Endowment-Making Amy Singer Conclusion Natalie Zemon Davis Contributors Index"

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A well-thought-out analysis with the very specific aim of addressing a gap in the historiography of the Middle East.

"""A well-thought-out analysis with the very specific aim of addressing a gap in the historiography of the Middle East."""

""A well-thought-out analysis with the very specific aim of addressing a gap in the historiography of the Middle East."" — Virginia H. Aksan, author of An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700–1783\ ""Posing interesting questions and offering imaginative answers, this volume marks a new departure in Middle Eastern scholarship. I am aware of no comprehensive volume on this or a similar subject for the Middle East."" — Nathan J. Brown, The George Washington University ""The individual articles complement one another so that the cumulative effect for understanding poverty and charity in the Middle East across the sweep of its history is quite rich. No existing volume provides such an overview of the topic as does this one."" — Everett K. Rowson, translator of The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXII: The Marwānid Restoration: The Caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malik A.D. 693-701/A.H. 74-81

Author Information

Michael Bonner is Professor of Medieval Islamic History at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of Aristocratic Violence and Holy War: Studies in the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier. Mine Ener (1965-2003) was Associate Professor of History at Villanova University. Amy Singer is Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Officials: Rural Administration around Sixteenth-Century Jerusalem and Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem, both also published by SUNY Press, and Charity in Islamic Societies.

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