Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts

Michael Bonner is Professor of Medieval Islamic History at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of Aristocratic Violence and Holy Studies in the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier . Mine Ener (1965-2003) was Associate Professor of History at Villanova University. Amy Singer is Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Palestinian Peasants and Ottoman Rural Administration around Sixteenth-Century Jerusalem and Constructing Ottoman An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem , both also published by SUNY Press, and Charity in Islamic Societies.