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List of Maps and Illustrations | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Abbreviations | ||
Note on Ottoman Turkish and Arabic Transliterations | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | "Devote the fruits to pious purposes" | 15 |
What is a waqf? | 17 | |
The roots of waqf | 22 | |
Why found a waqf? | 25 | |
The Ottomans | 32 | |
Ch. 2 | A Bowl of Soup and a Loaf of Bread | 39 |
The written record | 44 | |
Institutions of the endowment | 46 | |
Endowed properties | 48 | |
Personnel | 54 | |
Soup | 58 | |
Why Jerusalem? | 65 | |
Ch. 3 | Ladies Bountiful | 71 |
The conflated traditions: Hurrem-Helena | 73 | |
Beneficence and women in Islamic history | 81 | |
The Gender of Beneficence | 93 | |
Ch. 4 | Serving Soup in Jerusalem | 99 |
A report from the 'imaret | 99 | |
On management | 104 | |
Getting started | 105 | |
Tax arrears and firewood | 108 | |
Food for all | 112 | |
Building a bath | 117 | |
Dealing in grain | 121 | |
Adding to the endowment | 125 | |
Ch. 5 | Feeding Power | 131 |
Provisioning | 132 | |
On the word 'imaret | 143 | |
Pre-Ottoman precedents | 145 | |
An Ottoman institution | 152 | |
Conclusion: Practicing Beneficence | 159 | |
Notes | 171 | |
Bibliography | 207 | |
Index | 229 |
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