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Waqf is a charitable endowment that has wide economic implications and can play a significant role in increasing social welfare. The waqf system is one of the building stones of Turkish and Islamic culture. Maras was an important place which was under the domination of many different countries and in which many different civilization and cultures harmonized. After Maras was conqured by Turks, it became the war place of Seljuks, Armenia and Byzantines. Seljuks’s domination was continued till to the XIV. Century. In 1337, Beylik of Dulkadirs was established by Dulkadirs Turkmens. This paper refers to the case of Maras waqfs investigated in Dulkadirs and Ottoman Empire period. Some waqfs were alive more than a centry in Maras. If there was no accounting, there would be no control. And there would not be long-lived waqfs without control. The most important construction facilities especially as imperial waqfs in Maras region were made by Dulkadirs period. Most of the waqfs established in Maras in Ottoman period were charity waqfs. These waqfs were established by rich people or by local authority. Most of these endowments were destroyed, only some of them are still alive.

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