The role of governors and Arab workers in helping the needy and the poor in the eras Rashidin and Umayyad

Abstract

The research deals with financial and supplies support from the rulers and governors of the Arab cities and Islamic regions to the poor of common people and the poor of their own . The Islamic Arab community was characterized , since the prophet's era , with great humanistic features that formed the cultural characteristic which organized individual's economic life . The prophet , senior Muslims and the rich cared a lot about this side . There was a large variation in the degrees of wealth and poverty in the Muslim Arab community as a heritage from the pve – Islamic society where there is no concern about helping the needy and poor . Thus , the research sheds light on the different forms of help offered by rulers and governers to the poor especially during the Rashidi and Umayyad eras