Managing Egypt's Poor and the Politics of Benevolence, 1800-1952
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780691113784
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; African history: from c 1900 -; Social history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Sociology; History: World; Egypt; Middle East - General; Poverty; History / Middle East; Middle Eastern Studies; World History / Comparative History; Charities; Economic assistance, Domestic; History
First sentence: EMARKING ON his travels in the Ottoman Empire in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Englishman Thomas Thorn described how Islam was imbued with a genuine spirit of piety and noted that as a religion it was best characterized by its acts of public utility.