| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Poverty and charity in Middle Eastern contexts/ edited by Michael Bonner, Mine Ener, Amy Singer. |
| other author: |
Bonner, Michael David. |
| Published: |
Albany :State University of New York Press, : c2003., |
| Description: |
ix, 345 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| Notes: |
Based on papers presented at a conference held at University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies in May 2000. |
| Series: |
SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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 遳zbek -- 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. |
| Subject: |
Charity - Congresses. - Middle East - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=114228An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417531312 (electronic bk.) |