Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts.

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 Özbek -- 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.

Addresses the ideals and institutions through which Middle Eastern societies have confronted poverty and the poor.

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