Serving Up Charity: The Ottoman Public Kitchen
2004/11/29 by Amy Singer · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Islamic Studies and History #Islamic Finance and Banking Studies #Education and Islamic Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1162/0022195052564252
Abstract
Beneficent giving is one of Islam's basic obligations and principles. Food distributions in the Ottoman public kitchens (imarets) offer one material example of how Muslims put these principles into practice. The imaret distributions also demonstrate the extent to which particular historical perceptions of need and deservingness informed more universally familiar decisions about charitable giving.
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