MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02499cam a22002898a 4500
001 2009004216
003 DLC
005 20090302094308.0
008 090202s2009 gw b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009004216
020 $a9783110209464 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aBJ1533.G4$bG46 2009
082 00 $a205/.677$222
245 00 $aCharity and giving in monotheistic religion /$c[edited by] Miriam Frenkel and Yaacov Lev.
260 $aBerlin ;$aNew York :$bWalter de Gruyter,$c2009.
263 $a0904
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aStudien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients,$x1862-1295 ;$vBd. 22
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- The world of late antiquity and early middle ages / Avshalom Laniado -- The early Byzantine State and the Christian ideal of voluntary poverty / Daniel Caner -- Charitable ministrations, monasticism, and the social aesthetic of sixth-century byzantium / Claudia Rapp -- Charity and piety as Episcopal and imperial virtues in late antiquity / Susan R. Holman -- Healing the world with righteousness? : the language of social justice in early Christian homilies / Eliana Magnani -- Almsgiving, donatio pro anima and eucharistic offering in the early middle ages of Western Eeurope (4th-9th century) / : medieval Islam / Johannes Pahlitzsch -- Christian pious foundations as an element of continuity between late antiquity and Islam / Stefan Heidemann -- Charity and piety for the transformation of the cities / Yehoshua Frenkel -- Piety and charity in late medieval Egypt and Syria / Ana Maria Carballeira -- Forms and functions of charity in Al-Andalus / Amalia Zomeo -- When death will fall upon Himâ Yen : charitable legacies in 15th century Granada / Yaacov Lev -- Charity and gift iving in medieval Islam / Daniella Talmon-Heller -- Charity and repentance in medieval Islamic thought and practice / Mark R. Cohen -- Geniza documents for the comparative history of poverty and charity / Miriam Frenkel -- Charity in Jewish society of the medieval Mediterranean world / Marina Rustow -- Benefaction, gratitude (Shukr), and the politics of giving and receiving in letters from the Cairo Geniza / Yvonne Friedman -- An indigent scholar's plea for charity : a Geniza letter.
650 0 $aGenerosity.
650 0 $aGenerosity$xReligious aspects.
650 0 $aMonotheism.
650 0 $aCharity.
700 1 $aFrenkel, Miriam.
700 1 $aLev, Yaacov.