Giving in monotheistic religions
By: [edited by] Miriam Frenkel.
Contributors: Frenkel, Miriam.
Series: Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients -- Bd. 22
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9783110209464
Subjects: Generosity; Generosity -- Religious aspects; Monotheism; Charity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The world of late antiquity and early middle ages / Avshalom Laniado; title: The early Byzantine State and the Christian ideal of voluntary poverty / Daniel Caner; title: Charitable ministrations, monasticism, and the social aesthetic of sixth-century byzantium / Claudia Rapp; title: Charity and piety as Episcopal and imperial virtues in late antiquity / Susan R. Holman; title: Healing the world with righteousness? : the language of social justice in early Christian homilies / Eliana Magnani; title: Almsgiving, donatio pro anima and eucharistic offering in the early middle ages of Western Eeurope (4th-9th century) / : medieval Islam / Johannes Pahlitzsch; title: Christian pious foundations as an element of continuity between late antiquity and Islam / Stefan Heidemann; title: Charity and piety for the transformation of the cities / Yehoshua Frenkel; title: Piety and charity in late medieval Egypt and Syria / Ana Maria Carballeira; title: Forms and functions of charity in Al-Andalus / Amalia Zomeo; title: When death will fall upon Himâ Yen : charitable legacies in 15th century Granada / Yaacov Lev; title: Charity and gift iving in medieval Islam / Daniella Talmon-Heller; title: Charity and repentance in medieval Islamic thought and practice / Mark R. Cohen; title: Geniza documents for the comparative history of poverty and charity / Miriam Frenkel; title: Charity in Jewish society of the medieval Mediterranean world / Marina Rustow; title: Benefaction, gratitude (Shukr), and the politics of giving and receiving in letters  from the Cairo Geniza / Yvonne Friedman; title: An indigent scholar's plea for charity : a Geniza letter.