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: Ottoman vakıfs were multi purposed endowments serving social economic and administration services Similar to other empires land administration was crucial to Ottoman state that state acquired most of the state revenue from land incomes Ottoman vakıfs were very controversial according to the Ottoman land regime According to the common sense especially via “evladiyelik vakıfs” private persons used the vakıf land as if their private land and therefore they weakened state’s economic power This paper briefly deals with Ottoman vakıf system and its influence on Ottoman land regime Keywords: Vakıf miri land malikane evladiyelik vakıfs temlik tekke zaviye ulema

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