Ministry of Evkaf

Ministry of Evkaf
; Evkaf-ı Hümâyun Nezâreti
Agency overview
Formed	1840
Superseding agency	Directorate General of Foundations (3 March 1924);
Jurisdiction	Ottoman Empire
Headquarters	Constantinople

The Ministry of Evkaf Turkish: Evkaf-ı Hümâyun Nezâreti; French: Ministère de l'Evkaf) was an Ottoman Empire ministry in charge of awqaf (evkaf), administering waqfs (then known in Western languages as "vakouf", from the Turkish name). It was upgraded to a ministry in 1840 after being initially created in the century as the Bureau of Imperial Administration of Evkaf (French: Bureau d'Administration impériale de l'Evkaf).[1]

References

Young, George (1906). Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman (in French). Vol. 6. Clarendon Press. p. 117.

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[YoungV6p90-1] Young, George (1906). Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman (in French). Vol. 6. Clarendon Press. p. 117.