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Waqfs (pious endowments) lengthy held an important position within the political, monetary, and social lifetime of the Islamic global. Waqfs have been significant resources of schooling, wellbeing and fitness care, and employment; they formed the town and contributed to the maintenance of spiritual edifices. They constituted a big source, and their prestige used to be at stake in repeated struggles to impose competing definitions of legitimacy and group. nearer exam of the various felony, institutional, and sensible points of waqfs in numerous areas and groups is important to a deeper figuring out in their dynamism and resilience. This quantity, which developed from papers introduced on the 2005 American collage in Cairo Annual background Seminar, deals a meticulous set of reports that fills a spot in our wisdom of waqf and its makes use of.
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This document renews the rights of Kızıldeli’s offspring to the waqf lands. ” Musa Çelebi was the son of Yıldırım Bayezid and his successor in Thrace during the civil war. The previous survey register mentions an edict by Yıldırım Bayezid dated 1402, and Musa Çelebi’s edict employs the plural form of beg—indicating that by this time multiple rulers had endorsed Kızıldeli’s waqf. It is thus possible to trace the waqf’s origin even further back, possibly to the time of Murad I, under whom considerable parts of Thrace and the Balkans were conquered, among them Dimetoka, in which Kızıldeli’s hospice was founded.
The process was quite straightforward. indd 24 4/21/11 10:40:05 AM military victory was followed by annexation of a territory. Then the sultan distributed some of the conquered land as private property (milk) to Sufi leaders who had taken part in military action. 6 Grants were made to Sufi leaders in recognition of their services to Islam and the early Ottoman dynasty, but also incurred an obligation to fulfill certain public services through hospices to be founded on the newly conquered territories.
According to waqf deeds, the state gave the right to administer the waqf to a shaykh and his descendants provided that they served the needs of travelers passing through (ayende ve revendeye hizmet ideler, as noted above). 24 Another function attributed to these hospices and waqfs is that they were usually made responsible for guard highways (derbend). It is recorded in the survey register dated 1485–86, for example, that one of the villages included in the waqf of Seyyid Ali Sultan was a derbend village.