Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts

by Bonner, Michael; Ener, Mine; Singer, Amy

• ISBN13: 9780791457375
• ISBN10: 0791457370
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

A volume in the SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East Donald Quataert, editor

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Note to the Reader	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Part I Entitlement and Obligation
Poverty and Charity in the Rise of Islam	13	(18)
Michael Bonner
Status-Based Definitions of Need in Early Islamic Zakat and Maintenance Laws	31	(22)
Ingrid Mattson
The Foreign Jewish Poor in Medieval Egypt	53	(20)
Mark R. Cohen
``Prices Are in God's Hands'': The Theory and Practice of Price Control in the Medieval Islamic World	73	(22)
Adam Sabra
Part II Institutions
The Functional Aspects of Medieval Islamic Hospitals	95	(26)
Yasser Tabbaa
Charity and Hospitality: Hospitals in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period	121	(24)
Miri Shefer
Charity, the Poor, and Distribution of Alms in Ottoman Algiers	145	(20)
Miriam Hoexter
Part III The State as Benefactor
Living on the Margins of Charity: Coping with Poverty in an Ottoman Provincial City	165	(20)
Eyal Ginio
The Charity of the Khedive	185	(18)
Mine Ener
Imperial Gifts and Sultanic Legitimation during the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876--1909	203	(20)
Nadir Ozbek
Part IV Changing Worlds
Al-Tahtawi on Poverty and Welfare	223	(16)
Juan R. I. Cole
Islam, Philanthropy, and Political Culture in Interwar Egypt: The Activism of Labiba Ahmad	239	(16)
Beth Baron
``The Child Question'': The Politics of Child Welfare in Early Republican Turkey	255	(20)
Kathryn Libal
Part V Welfare as Politics
Islamic Redistribution through Zakat: Historical Record and Modern Realities	275	(20)
Timur Kuran
Charity's Legacies: Reconsideration of Ottoman Imperial Endowment-Making	295	(20)
Amy Singer
Conclusion	315	(10)
Natalie Zemon Davis
Contributors	325	(4)
Index	329