The transformation of waqf in Turkey from the Ottoman to the contemporary period
This paper aims to provide an overview of the existence of waqf in Turkey and the changes that occurred during the Ottoman Empire, which for a long time sustained the existence of Islamic civilization, including community service in the fields of worship, education, social and military. Even t...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2023
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23117/1/IJIT_24_3.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/23117/ https://www.ukm.my/ijit/ |
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| Summary: | This paper aims to provide an overview of the existence of waqf in Turkey and the
changes that occurred during the Ottoman Empire, which for a long time sustained the
existence of Islamic civilization, including community service in the fields of worship,
education, social and military. Even though Turkey has been completely secularized,
waqf still exists in various forms. Using literary methods, historical qualitative
approaches, and descriptive analysis, the researchers attempt to reveal the conditions
and types of waqf in Turkey during the Ottoman period and the modern era, namely
after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. In general, the researchers found that waqf in
Turkey was used for humanitarian purposes, both for Muslims and non-Muslims, and
animals might also benefit from the waqf. In the post-Ottoman Turkish period, waqf
emerged in other forms, such as special waqf to deal with earthquakes and natural
disasters, as well as to help widows and children of war victims. Sufi orders also played
a role in the development of waqf, which avoided direct conflict with the secular
government of the time of Kemal Atatürk and his supporters. Sufi orders lived to develop
Waqf in community services, hospitals, education, and other social
activities—
expansion of sufi waqf in the Balkans. |
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