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Ottoman Charitable Endowments (waqf) Constituted An Enduring Monument To Imperial Beneficence And Were Important Instruments Of Policy. One Type Of Endowment, The Public Soup Kitchen (imaret) Served Travelers, Scholars, Pious Mystics, And Local Indigents Alike. Constructing Ottoman Beneficence Examines The Political, Social, And Cultural Context For Founding These Public Kitchens. It Challenges Long-held Notions About The Nature Of Endowments And Explores For The First Time How Ottoman Modes Of Beneficence Provide An Important Paradigm For Understanding Universal Questions About The Nature Of Charitable Giving.a Typical And Well-documented Example Was The Imaret Of Hasseki Hurrem Sultan, Wife Of Sultan Süleyman I, In Jerusalem. The Imaret Operated At The Confluence Of Imperial Endowment Practices And Ottoman Food Supply Policies, While Also Exemplifying The Role Of Imperial Women As Benefactors. Through Its Operations, The Imaret Linked Imperial Ottoman And Local Palestinian Interests, Integrating Urban And Rural Economies. Devote The Fruits To Pious Purposes -- What Is A Waqf? -- The Roots Of Waqf -- Why Found A Waqf? -- The Ottomans -- A Bowl Of Soup And A Loaf Of Bread -- The Written Record -- Institutions Of The Endowment -- Endowed Properties -- Personnel -- Soup -- Why Jerusalem? -- Ladies Bountiful -- The Conflated Traditions: Hurrem-helena -- Beneficence And Women In Islamic History -- Early Examples -- The Byzantine Factor -- Turco-mongol Heritage -- The Ottomans -- The Gender Of Beneficence -- Serving Soup In Jerusalem -- A Report From The Imaret -- On Management -- Tax Arrears And Firewood -- Food For All -- Building A Bath -- Dealing In Grain -- Adding To The Endowment -- Feeding Power -- Provisioning -- Istanbul And Topkapi Palace -- Provincial Towns -- The Army On Campaign -- Janissaries -- Hajj Caravans -- On The Word Imaret -- Pre-ottoman Precedents -- An Ottoman Institution -- Conclusion: Practicing Beneficence. Amy Singer. Bibliographic Level Mode