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SUMMARY:The long-term financial trajectory of Ottoman foundations (Waqfs):
  A political economy perspective - Pinar Ceylan\, Cambridge and Christophe
 r Markiewicz\, Ghent
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CONTACT:Amy Erickson
DESCRIPTION:This paper traces the long-term financial trajectory of Ottoma
 n pious foundations using a newly compiled dataset of 1\,300 accounting re
 gisters from sixty foundations across the Balkans\, Anatolia\, the Levant\
 , and Egypt (1575–1800). It provides the first systematic quantitative a
 nalysis based on a comprehensive empire-wide dataset. We examine how the f
 inances of foundations—major holders of urban and rural assets and among
  the principal revenue claimants of the empire—evolved within broader pr
 ocesses of state-building and economic change. We show that although the f
 inancial and operational capacity of foundations diminished over time\, mo
 st remained resilient until late eighteenth-century fiscal instability tri
 ggered marked decline.\nhttps://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87528851922?pwd=ai1om0
 jgLiPzH3wExGUjGnFLDGqITv.1
LOCATION:Erasmus room\, Queens' College
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