(Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients,1862-1295
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Introduction - 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 Maraia Carballeira Debasa - "When death will fall upon him" : charitable legacies in 15th century Granada / Amalia Zomeono - 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 (nima), 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