Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.