The '''Ministry of Evkaf''' ({{lang-ota|أوقاف همایون نظارتی}}; {{lang-tr|Evkaf-ı Hümâyun Nezâreti}}; {{lang-fr|'''Ministère de l'Evkaf'''}})<!--French has affinity with the post-[[Tanzimat]] Ottoman Empire; this article notes French was a working language of this ministry, and [[Languages of the Ottoman Empire]] and sources cited from Strauss indicate how important French was among the Christian/Jewish minorities and the educated along with how the empire interacted with foreigners with French--> was an [[Ottoman Empire]] ministry in charge of [[awqaf]] (evkaf), administering [[waqf]]s (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''' ({{lang-fr|Bureau d'Administration impériale de l'Evkaf}}).<ref name=YoungV6p90>{{cite book|author=Young, George|title=[[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]]|publisher=[[Clarendon Press]]|volume=6|year=1906|language=fr|page=[https://archive.org/details/corpsdedroitott02youngoog/page/n119 117]}}</ref>
