ISBN:
0791457370
,
0791457389
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 345 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East
DDC:
362.5/0956
Keywords:
Armut
;
Islam
;
Armutsbekämpfung
;
Umverteilung
;
Öffentliche Sozialleistungen
;
Geschichte
;
Mittlerer Osten
;
Osmanisches Reich
;
Wohltätigkeit
;
Poverty Middle East
;
Congresses
;
Charity Middle East
;
Congresses
;
Islam Charities
;
Congresses
;
Poverty Congresses
;
Middle East
;
Charity Congresses
;
Middle East
;
Islam Congresses
;
Charities
;
Armut
;
Sozialgeschichte
;
Fürsorge
;
Sozialdienst
;
Naher Osten
;
Mittlerer Osten
;
Nordafrika
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Naher Osten
;
Armut
;
Kongress
;
Wohltätigkeit
;
Türkei
;
Islam
;
Fürsorge
Abstract:
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 (c)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
Description / Table of Contents:
Bonner, Michael: Poverty and charity in the rise of Islam. - S. 13-30 Mattson, Ingrid: Status-based definitions of need in early Islamic zakat and maintenance laws. - S. 31-51 Cohen, Mark R.: The foreign Jewish poor in medieval Egypt. - S. 53-72 Sabra, Adam: "Prices are in God's hands": the theory and practice of price control in the medieval Islamic world. - S. 73-91 Tabbaa, Yasser: The functional aspects of medieval Islamic hospitals. - S. 95-119 Shefer, Miri: Charity and hospitality: hospitals in the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. - S. 121-143 Hoexter, Miriam: Charity, the poor, and distribution of alms in Ottoman Algiers. - S. 145-162 Ginio, Eyal: Living on the margins of charity: coping with poverty in an Ottoman provincial city. - S. 165-184 Ener, Mine: The charity of the khedive. - S. 185-201 Özbek, Nadir: Imperial gifts and sultanic legitimation during the late Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909. - S. 203-220 Cole, Juan R. I.: Al-Tahtawi on poverty and welfare. - S. 223-238 Baron, Beth: I
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Based on papers presented at a conference held at University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies in May 2000
,
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 15 Beitr
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy037/2002042629.html
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