In this section, a book named Hacı Bektaş Velî Dergâhı Ziyâretçi Defteri 1921-1925 written by Hasan Demirtaş and published by the General Directorate of Foundations in 2020 is introduced to the reader from Yılmaz Kurt’s pen. Bu bölümde, Hasan Demirtaş’ın yazarı olduğu ve Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü tarafından 2020 yılı içerisinde basımı yapılan Hacı Bektaş Velî Dergâhı Ziyâretçi...
Being one of the most controversial issues of late years The Hagia Sophia Mosque might be counted among the places of worship about which had been written numerous books and articles. Since there are dozens of books and booklets at various libraries in Turkey called “History of the Hagia Sophia”. The building which had served as a church until the conquest of İstanbul and was...
The study focuses on the question of whether awqaf are based on a rights-based approach in social assistance practices. The questionnaire was designed to understand how the principles of empowerment, participation, accountability, anti-discrimination and equality, which constitute the practical components of the rights-based approach, correspond to the social assistance of awqaf...
Cultural heritage management is an increasingly important concept in the world and in our country. The cultural heritage of a city consists of all the cultural layers that make up the city's past, and these layers feed each other. In a city like Istanbul that has been the capital of two empires, cultural heritage management has different challenges and advantages. In this study...
Southeastern Anatolia Region, which connects Anatolia to Mesopotamia, is a region that every civilization wanted to have and settle throughout history due to its fertile lands, strategic location and topography. The cultural values and accumulation of the historical and cultural values that have survived in the region from the previous period of the civilizations that follow each...
In this study, a prayer book in Amasya Province Public Library is examined with its appearance, text content and illustrations. It is seen that this manuscript also includes the prayer books of the 18th and 19th centuries and the city depictions of Mecca and Medina, which are frequently encountered in the Delâilü'l-Hayrât. Unlike classical era miniatures in the period, these...
In general, the waqf is people’s spending some or all of their properties for the purpose of establishing charitable instutions and to continue their activities in order to get God’s approval. With this thought, many new awqaf were established in Aksaray in the 19th century and a considerable part of the awqaf that were established in the previous periods continued their...
Although the autonomous positions of waqf, which is one of the important features of decentralization, weakened as a result of the centralization policies that began to be implemented after Tanzimat, the awqaf continued to maintain their importance in the social and economic life of the society. In this period, there are many awqaf in Siverek, mainly belonging to mosques and...
Hurufat registers are available in the archives of the General Directorate of Foundations. There are records 1 to 4 in page range in 7 notebooks under the name of Gercanis. All of these records belonging to the 17th and 18th centuries were read and considerable information was obtained about the district structures. There are data about the structures mentioned in the records...
The economic and social characteristics of the awqaf provided them an important place in the Ottoman society and economic structure. The intricate relationships of awqaf with economic and social issues led them to be affected by every development occuring in economic and social issues. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the administrative, economic and social problems in the Ottoman...
This paper examines a hammam survey prepared in 1180/1766 in Istanbul on the existing public baths. This survey registers a total of 195 public baths with their locations, awqaf they are affiliated with, rent revenues, gedik owners and tenants. In the light of the numerical and spatial data contained in the survey, this work aims to provide a comprehensive public distribution of...
In the Ottoman Empire, all state servants except the vizier, grand seigneur, the owners of tımar and zeamet (infeoff) and all the state employees who received salaries from the Treasury and Evkaf were registered in the Ruûs books.The oldest dated Ruûs book in the Ottoman Archive belongs to the includes 177 appointments year of 1546 and the newest 1908. The Ruûs book studied in...
In the Ottoman society, regular registry books were kept to determine the sources of taxes; being one of tax sources, the mills were mentioned especially in the tahrir and temettüât books. As well as revealing clues about water sources in a region, the mills were sometimes mentioned in the registry books as a commercial entity of the waqf they were affiliated to because they were...
Son of Malkoç Mustafa Bey, a member of one of frontier-Ottoman families known as Malkaçogulları, Yakup Pasha was Vizier and governor of Balkans during the reigns of Mehmet II (the Conqueror) and Beyazıd II. He was married to an Ottoman Princess, the daughter of Bayezid II, and therefore was also known as Damat Pasha. He established a large waqf named after him in Üsküp (Skopje...
Toplu makale neşirleri, bir araştırmacı ve yazarın, yazı hayatı boyunca kitap olarak bastırabildiği eserlerini bütünleyen son derece önemli bir yayın çabasıdır. Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü son yıllarda bu faaliyete altın halkalar eklemiş bulunmakta ve görüldüğü üzere Orhan Cezmi Tuncer’in Vakıflar Dergisi’ndeki makalelerini kitaplaştırarak da bu alandaki çabasını sürdürme azmini...
Bu bölümde Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü tarafından 2019 yılı içerisinde basımı yapılan iki kitabın tanıtımı yapılmıştır. Eyüp Sabri Kala ve İdris Akarçeşme’nin yazarı olduğu Mihrişah Valide Sultan Vakfı adlı kitap Yılmaz Kurt’un kaleminden okuyucuya tanıtılmaktadır. Orhan Cezmi Tuncer’e ait Makaleler: Vakıflar Dergisinden Seçmeler – IV isimli kitap ise Yusuf Turan Günaydın tarafından...
The Selimiye Mosque and related buildings of the mosque complex had all been constructed on the highest hill of Edirne. The location of the mosque increases its attraction and emphasizes the glorious power of the Empire while the architecture of mosque itself already has a monumental impression. In this context, the study mentions briefly about the well-known historical buildings...
In Ottoman Hungary, as in the other parts of Rumelia, the settlements were re-shaped in line with the Turco-Islamic understanding of city planning and new buildings were established. During the one and a half century of Turkish rule, apart from mosques and masjids, dervish lodges and tombs were also built and thus spiritual conquest succeeded. At times of war, the ghazi dervishes...
In this study, the mosque bearing the name of Ali, the last one of Hulefâyı Raşidin (The Rashidun Caliph) and the waqfs of tombs and masjids bearing the names of Zübeyr bin Avvam from Aşere-i Mübeşşere , Talha bin Ubeydullah, Enes bin Malik, the last companion of the prophet, and Hasan-ı Basri from “tabiin” (the dependents) will be discussed. Records of the mosques and tombs...
Education made up the basis of growth and development in the past as it is the case in present time. For this reason, it is possible to argue that education is the most important element in the growth and development of a state in administrative, political, military and economic terms. Being aware of the importance of an educational system, the Ottoman State gave great importance...
he first cash waqf in the Ottoman State was established in Edirne in 1423 by Yağcı Hacı Muslihiddin with a capital stock of 10.000 akche. As of this date, cash waqfs continued their existence by widely spreading throughout the country until the end of the Ottoman Empire. Although its legitimacy has been debated, at times, between scholars of the Ottoman Empire as well as between...
Vuslat Kadin, the third consort of Sultan Mahmud I, endowed incomes from her estates, which were assigned by Sultan, to her hospital in Medina and water fountain in Istanbul. The hospital provided health services to Medina people and pilgrims of Hajj and Umrah. The fountain provided drinking water to people of Istanbul. Vuslat Kadin also established a waqf that enabled services...
The cities, which are the most important extension of the process of civilization started by the humans’ transition into the settled life, are the places of settlement formed by various principle entities which are generated based upon the needs of the community throughout the history. These entities are the structures in regards to fulfilling the social, economic, religious and...
The Ottoman Empire did not interfere in the matters of non-Muslim ecclesiastical establishments as long as they took notice of certain rules set by the state; nevertheless it continued to charge taxes on their land and property. Some of the most important of those establishments are monasteries. If the monasteries owned their lands and properties before the conquest, the state...
Many religious, social, economic and cultural works such as mosque, small mosque, seminary school, soup kitchen, convent, caravansary, public bath and tomb were constructed in the city of Tokat during the Danismendid, Seljukid and Ottoman periods since XII th century. The rich social and economic potential of Tokat with its position on east-west and south-north roads, its warm...