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A WAQFANAMA WITH THE TUGHRA OF OSMAN III (R.1754-57), TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1169 AH/1755 AD

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June 10, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

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A WAQFANAMA WITH THE TUGHRA OF OSMAN III (R.1754-57), TURKEY,𝓀 OTTOMAN, DATED 1169 AH/1755 AD


Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 10 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, gold dots separating the text, key words underlined in gold, ruled in gold and black, f.1ꦬa with the tughra of Osman III in gold, in leather stamped binding with central almond-shaped motif


30 by 18.5cm.

This waqfnamah was ordered by the vizier Mehmed Said Pasha who is named as the vekil (agent) of the donor, a certain Hafiz Omer Efendi ibn el-Hacc Ibrahim. It records the endowment of a waqf to the sum of 750 ghurush by Hafiz Omer Efendi on the condition that the profit of the waqf be used for charitable purposes in the Sufi lodge (hankah) founded by Koca Mustafa Pasha. The mutevelli (administrator) is named as a certain Kutbuddin Efendi. The text also includes a defence of cash waqfs according to the Hanafi tradition, based on rulings of the Hanafi jurists Zufar and al-Ansari (for this controversy, see Jon E. Mandaville, 'Usurious Piety: The Cash Waqf Controversy in the Ottoman Empire', International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol.10, No.3 [Aug. 1979], pp.289-3080. It is dated 1169 AH/1755 AD) and witnessed at the end by various signatories. The seal impression that🎉 appears at certain places in the manuscript belongs to a someone called ‘Ali, and may belong to the el-Hacc ‘Ali ibn Mehmed alongside whose name it appears at the end of the manuscript.