This booklet bargains with quite a few manifestations of charity or giving within the contexts of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim medieval societies. Monotheistic charity and giving show many universal gains. those underlying similarities mirror a quite often shared view approximately God and his family members to mankind and what people owe to God and anticipate from him. however, the truth that the emphasis is put on similarities doesn't suggest that the distinctiveness of the techniques of charity and giving within the 3 monotheistic religions is denied. The individuals´ different and heterogeneous techniques distinguish the e-book from different works on charity and giving in monotheistic religions.
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