@article{article_346600, title={The Place and Importance of Foundations in Ottoman}, journal={The Journal of International Scientific Researches}, volume={2}, pages={119–128}, year={2017}, DOI={10.23834/isrjournal.346600}, author={Bostan, Muhammed Kemal}, keywords={Vakıflar,Osmanlı Devleti,Sosyal Harcamalar}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"> <i> <span style="font-size:10pt;">From past to present, foundations
(Vakıfs), which are constituted in order to strengthen assistance and
solidarity spirit and to increase social capital in social relations, have been
one of the indispensable social institutions of everyday life. Although it is
possible to assert the existence of foundations in Pre-Islamic era, they
essentially rise as an institutional entity in the Arabic civilisation that
embraced Islam. They become common also in Turkish world after Turks embraced
Islam. The foundations and services they provide experienced the golden age
after Islam spread to wide geographies and foundation culture developed within
Turkish-Islamic synthesis. Throughout the centuries, they have maintained
facilities that empower social solidarity such as sheltering, education and
health services, that meet the social needs and that affect the economy
directly or indirectly. Moreover, they have penetrated into political and
social ground from state administration to urbanisation. Most of social
services that are conducted by the foundations previously have turned into
public service after social welfare state understanding dominated in 20th
century. In this study, foundations in the Ottoman era and their services with
content and reflections in social life are analysed. </span> </i> </p>}, number={7}, publisher={Salih YILDIZ}