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- Title
H. 1077/M. 1666 TARİHLİ VAKIF MUHASEBE DEFTERİNE GÖRE ŞEHZÂDE MEHMED KÜLLİYESİ'NDEKİ VAKIFLARIN GELİR-GİDER KAYITLARI.
- Authors
SARICAOĞLU, Mehmet Esat
- Abstract
Waqfs were religious-legal institutions that shaped the social and economic life of the Ottoman Empire. Essentially, waqfs were social institutions established to gain the favour of Allah through acts of charity and benefiting all humanity, and other living beings. In this context, the Ottomans, who built a great civilization in history, made significant contributions to the development of waqfs inherited from previous Turkish-Islamic states and to the diversification and spread of these charitable institutions in every aspect of social life. In the Ottoman Empire, almost all public services were carried out through waqfs. Indeed, public works such as road and bridge construction, social aid activities such as building hospitals and helping the needy, educational services, cultural tasks aimed at ensuring the construction of madrasas and libraries, all aspects of care for madrasa students, and religious services such as mosque construction were performed by waqfs. Waqfs were continuously monitored by the state, and this oversight was primarily based on accounting registers kept by waqf officials. These registers, which recorded the income and expenses of the waqfs, were named waqf accounting registers. This study presents in detail the income and expenditure records and the functioning of the waqfs belonging to the units of the Şehzade Complex, established by Suleyman the Magnificent in the name of his son, Prince Mehmed, after his death. The study is based on the data from the waqf accounting register numbered TS. MA.D 4789 and dated H. 1077/M. 1666, located in the Ottoman Archive within the Presidency State Archives.
- Publication
Kırıkkale University Journal of Social Sciences, 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
2146-2879
- Publication type
Article