Osmanlı Bosna’sı Para Vakıfları, 1526-1914: Sermaye Seviyeleri Üzerinden Bir Karşılaştırma

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to examine cash waqfs established in Ottoman Bosnia from the first decades of the sixteenth century to the First World War. In a first attempt towards employing a new dataset, this study constructs capital levels from the cash waqf contracts (waqfiyyas) from registers of Bosnia and uses the data to establish comparative research by periods, and socioeconomic status of the founders. Although the data has its limitations, this study uses descriptive analysis to present the main features of Bosnia cash waqfs, focusing on titles of founders, towns, profit shares, and numbers of witnesses in contracts. All in all, the findings suggest that cash waqfs of titled individuals and males had higher capital compared to untitled individuals and females, while a convergence emerged from the nineteenth century. The dataset used in this study indicates the proliferation of cash waqfs in Ottoman Bosnia, particularly from the second half of the eighteenth century.

Cash Waqf Formation in Sarajevo, 1526-1921: A Temporal Analysis

“…Beginning in the sixteenth century, cash waqfs emerged as philanthropic and financial institutions within the institutional environment of the Ottoman Empire. Through the utilization of primary sources such as waqf deeds, accounting books, and court records, recent scholarship has sought to understand the proliferation and operation of these privately funded organizations over time (Barkan & Ayverdi, 1970;Çizakça, 1995;Özcan, 2003;Çiftçi, 2004;Orbay, 2014;Altay & Bulut, 2017;Gürsoy, 2017Gürsoy, , 2021Adıgüzel & Kuran, 2021;Altay, 2022;Gürsoy & Özdeğer, 2022;Özvar & Yıldırım, 2022). Additionally, this literature has investigated the key characteristics that enable these organizations to contribute to the development of provinces and the social welfare of society (Barkan, 1940;Mandeville, 1979;Peri, 1992;Çizakça, 2000;Shatzmiller, 2001;Shechter, 2005;Singer, 2013;Khan, 2015).…”