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