Vakufs and vakifs in eastern Bosna

Abstract

This work presents the more significant vakufs on the territory of Eastern Bosna, on the basis of vakufnamas preserved either in the original or in testified transcript. It is known that vakuf-endowments had a significant role in our country, and that they were numerous, but many of them were lost in the whirlwind of time, and we know about them from preserved vakufnamas only.

Here are presented the below quoted vakufs on the basis of either original or verified transcrpts of vakufnamas in the Gazi Husref- beg's library: The Vakuf of Mustafa-paša Sokolović at Rudo, who with this vakuf founded this kasaba in 1555. he vakuf of Husejnbeg son of Iljas Arnautović in 1558 at Rogatica.
The vakuf of the Sandžak-beg from Hercegovina Sinan Boljanić, with many properties of humanitarian and utilitarian purpose at Sopot near Nevesinje, Jajce, Banja Luka, and the Cernik kasaba in Slavonia. In the vakufnama his wife Šemsa-kaduna, sister of vezir Mehmed-paša Sokolović is mentioned.

The vakuf of Ismail Čelebija son of Hadži Ebu Bekr from Mustafa-pašina mahala at Foča in 1664, a regulation of the vakif that every year 1000 akči are to be paid to pay tax for the population of the Mustafapašina mahala, is here interesting. The vakufnama of Mehmed-paša Kukavica at Foča and at the other places in Bosna in the XVIII c. A the end of the work is given a review of vakufs on the territory of Bosna at the end of the last c., which shows a numerous state and economic force of about thirty vakufs, that existed on this territory in the XIX c. For the most of these vakufs there do not exist vakufnama, e. g. they have been lost.
This review is made on the basis of the publication »Calculation of vakufs in BiH for the year 1889« issued by the Vakuf Land Committe in Sarajevo.