Journal of Analytic Divinity

Yazarlar: Uğur SEZER, Sabri Can SANNAV

Konular:Din Bilimi

Anahtar Kelimeler:Cash Wakifs,Ulema,Ecclesiastical Law,Shaykh al-Islam,Khadi.

Özet:     The word endowment is expressed as the permanent abandonment of a property to the public interest or to a charitable work. ‘Cash wakif’ (charitable cash foundations) are the kind of foundation which are formed by the endowment of a certain money rather than an immovable property. In these foundations, the money is run by the responsible persons called “board of trustees” and the profits obtained are spent according to the purpose of the establishment of the foundation. During the Ottoman period, while some of the ulema (scholars), kadi-ul asker (religious judges of the army) and shaykh al-islam (scholars of the Islamic sciences) argued that cash wakifs were permissible, some people from this stratum also wrote works explaining that money foundations were not acceptable. Famous figures of the Ottoman Empire, Çivi-zâde Muhyiddin Efendi and his advocate of the same opinion Imam Birgivi, argued that cash wakifs were not permissible, while others such as Ebussuud Efendi and Sofyalı Bali Efendi had argued that cash wakifs were licit. Ultimately, Ebussuud Efendi’s views have been passed over as the prevailing opinion and some approaches have been put forward accordingly. Cash wakifs have gained a widespread acceptance within the Ottoman societal structure, and despite some noteworthy arguments, they attracted the positive attention of both the state and the community. The study we do here is about how the arguments on these topics were evolved and what problems have arisen in this regard.

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