Charity and giving in monotheistic religion / edited by Miriam Frenkel and Yaacov Lev.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frenkel, Miriam.

Lev, Yaacov.

Series:

Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients (2004) ; n.F., Bd. 22.

Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients, 1862-1295 ; n.F., Bd. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generosity.

Generosity--Religious aspects.

Monotheism.

Charity.

Physical Description:

xvi, 413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2009]

Contents:

The world of late antiquity and early middle ages

The early Byzantine State and the Christian ideal of voluntary poverty / Avshalom Laniado

Charitable ministrations (diakoniai), monasticism, and the social aesthetic of sixth-century Byzantium / Daniel Caner

Charity and piety as Episcopal and imperial virtues in late antiquity / Claudia Rapp

Healing the world with righteousness?: the language of social justice in early Christian homilies / Susan R. Holman

Almsgiving, donatio pro anima and eucharistic offering in the early middle ages of Western Eeurope (4th-9th century) / Eliana Magnani

Medieval Islam

Christian pious foundations as an element of continuity between late antiquity and Islam / Johannes Pahlitzsch

Charity and piety for the transformation of the cities: the new direction in taxation and waqf policy in mid-twelfth-century Syria and Northern Mesopotamia / Stefan Heidemann

Piety and charity in late medieval Egypt and Syria / Yehoshua Frenkel

Forms and functions of charity in Al-Andalus / Ana María Carballeira Debasa

"When death will fall upon him": charitable legacies in 15th century Granada / Amalia Zomeño

Charity and gift giving in medieval Islam / Yaacov Lev

Charity and repentance in medieval Islamic thought and practice / Daniella Talmon-Heller

The Jewish world

Geniza documents for the comparative history of poverty and charity / Mark R. Cohen

Charity in Jewish society of the medieval Mediterranean world / Miriam Frenkel

Benefaction (niʻma), gratitude (shukr), and the politics of giving and receiving in letters from the Cairo Geniza / Marina Rustow

An indigent scholar's plea for charity: a Geniza letter / Yvonne Friedman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110209464

3110209462

OCLC:

302099655