• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Awqāf in Persia: 6th-8th / 12th-14th Centuries
  • Beteiligte: Lambton, Ann
  • Erschienen: Brill, 1997
  • Erschienen in: Islamic Law and Society
  • Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
  • DOI: 10.1163/1568519972599761
  • ISSN: 0928-9380; 1568-5195
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In this essay I have examined information on Awqāf in the 6th-8th/12th-14th centuries contained in various historical texts, including the local histories of Yazd, Fārs and Kirmān, especially the anonymous Tārīkh-i shāhī-i Qara Khitaʾiyan, the waqfiyya of Rashīd al-Dīn Fadl Allāh (dated 709/1309-10), the Jāmiʿ al-khayrāt of Sayyid Rukn al-Dīn Yazdī and his son Sayyid Shams al-Dīn (dated 748/1347-8) and a number of collections containing documents on Awqāf, notably the ʿAtabat al-kataba of Muʾayyad al-Dawla Muntajab al-Dīn al-Juwaynī and the anonymous al-Mukhtārāt min al-rasāʾil. I have sought to show the purposes for which Awqāf were consitituted, the motives of those who constituted them and their spread in the 6th-8th/12th-14th centuries.</jats:p> </jats:sec>