The Ministry of Evkaf (Ottoman Turkish: أوقاف همایون نظارتی; Turkish: Evkaf-ı Hümâyun Nezâreti) 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]
| Ottoman Turkish: أوقاف همایون نظارتی Evkaf-ı Hümâyun Nezâreti | |
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| Formed | 1840 |
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| Jurisdiction |  Ottoman Empire |
| Headquarters | Constantinople |
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References
edit- ^ 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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