Charity in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions (paperback)

Charity in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic TraditionsAuthor(s): Julia R. Lieberman, Michal Jan Rozbicki, Thomas Adam, Dauda Abubakar, Yaron Ayalon, Gregory R. Beabout, Philip R. Gavitt, Fatih Harpci, Melinda Jones, Julia R. Lieberman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498560870, 978-1498560870\nSynopsis\nThis collection of essays by a team of international scholars addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The contributors look for common paradigms in the ways the three faiths address the needs of the poor and the needy in their respective societies, and reflect on the interrelatedness of such practices among the three religions. They ask how the three traditions deal with the distribution of wealth, in the recognition that not all members of a given society have equal access to it, and in the relationship of charity to the inheritance.