^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} Balkanlar'da Osmanlı Vakıfları - Vakfiyeler Bulgaristan - 3 Cilt - 2012

This publication resulted from alarge-scaleresearch project IRCICA under took on the subject of the waqf institution.The waqf as atype of foundation was born in the Muslim world to serve a variety of functions ranging from the provision of basic means of subsistence to education, from charitable deeds to building mosques. The waqf also served as a model and found application outside the Muslim world with certain adaptations. In this research project IRCICA aims tocollect theoriginal sourceson waqfs such as thee stablishment deeds, the documents resulting from their operations andifany, the reports on their functions, to study them and to make them available for researchers. Special consideration is given to the waqfs which are at present located outside the OIC member countries, in particular those addressing the Muslim communities and minorities. The project started with a focus on the waqfs datingfrom the Ottoman periodin the Balkan countries. The first out come is a three-volume publication devotedtothe waqfs in Bulgaria. In thisproject the Centre collected and transliterated the deeds of 290 waqfs established in Bulgaria and published these transliterations together with the reproductions of the original documents.The deeds of 10 of these waqfs are in Arabican dallothers in Ottoman Turkish. In the book the texts of the deeds are grouped according to the cities or districts. A summary of each document is provided, to make it useful also for those who do not read the Ottoman language.