Endowments, Rulers and Community: Waqf Al-Ḥaramayn in Ottoman Algiers

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-10964-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Reihe: Studies in Islamic Law and Society

This study depicts the history of the waqf endowments in Algiers dedicated to the poor of Mecca and Medina over the last 170 years of Ottoman rule. It is one of the first studies of a major public foundation based on its own registers.
Its main themes are: the foundation's growth, its benefactors, the evolution of its patrimony, its administration, managerial policies and functions in the town.
The author discusses the history of the foundation within two contexts - that of the Islamic endowment institution and that of the history of Algiers - and offers new insights into the interaction between the law and socio-economic circumstances, the dialogue between the local community and its rulers and the role of the foundation as a major factor in the shaping of the Algerian public sphere.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoexter, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Immobilienwirtschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Miriam Hoexter, Ph.D. (1979), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of articles on the social history of Ottoman and colonial Algeria, Ottoman Palestine, and the Islamic endowment institution.