IRCICA PUBLICATIONS 1980-2012

RESEARCH IN ISLAMIC CIVILISATIONSOURCES AND STUDIES ON THE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC CIVILISATION INTHE BALKANS AND CAUCASIAINVENTORYOF OTTOMAN TURKISH DOCUMENTSABOUT WAQF PRESERVED IN THE ORIENTALDEPARTMENT AT THE ST ST CYRIL ANDMETHODIUS NATIONAL LIBRARY(PART 1-REGISTERS)Prepared by Evgeni Radushev, Svetlana Ivanova, Rumen KovachevSponsored by IRCICA, International Centre for Minority Studies andIntercultural Relations (IMIR), Sofia, Bulgaria 2003This inventory was compiled owing to the joint efforts ofthree senior researchers Evgeni Radushev, Svetlana Ivanova,and Rumen Kovachev. They carried our the study for thepresent inventory by focusing on the registers and series ofwaqf documents compiled in the form of destes or quires ofdocuments and two specialized kadı waqf sicills. The singledocuments, which Prof. L. Fekete calls “loose sheets” willbe included in a second volume of the Inventory. A detailedannotation is given for each archival unit that is listed. Thedata contained in the registers informs us especially aboutthe location of the land waqfs in the Balkans and Anatolia,their founders, the types of waqf properties, toponyms andonomastics, the salaries of waqf functionaries, market pricesand the enterprises of various waqfs, depicting a detailedpicture of the Ottoman Empire and providing informationabout problems which have not been formerly dealt with.The present inventory sheds light upon one of the significantsubjects of Ottoman social and economic history on thebasis of first hand archival documents.Contact address:Sofia 1303, 55 Antim I St. Bulgariamarko@imir-bg.orgIRCICA PUBLICATIONS 1980-2012 125