Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Note to the Reader ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Entitlement and Obligation
7. Poverty and Charity in the Rise of Islam 13
8. Status-Based Definitions of Need in Early Islamic Zakat and Maintenance Laws 31
9. The Foreign Jewish Poor in Medieval Egypt 53
10. “Prices Are in God’s Hands” 73
11. Institutions
12. The Functional Aspects of Medieval Islamic Hospitals 95
13. Charity and Hospitality 121
14. Charity, the Poor, and Distribution of Alms in Ottoman Algiers 145
15. The State as Benefactor
16. Living on the Margins of Charity 165
17. The Charity of the Khedive 185
18. Imperial Gifts and Sultanic Legitimation during the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876–1909 203
19. Changing Worlds
20. Al-Tahtawi on Poverty and Welfare 223
21. Islam, Philanthropy, and Political Culture in Interwar Egypt 239
22. “The Child Question” 255
23. Welfare as Politics
24. Islamic Redistribution through Zakat 275
25. Charity’s Legacies 295
26. Conclusion 315
27. Contributors 325
28. Index 329
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