Ministry of Evkaf

Department of the Imperial Government responsible for administering wafqs

Directorate General of Foundations (3 March 1924)

Jurisdiction

Ottoman EmpireHeadquartersConstantinople

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The Ministry of Evkaf (Ottoman Turkish: أوقاف همایون نظارتی; Turkish: Evkaf-ı Hümâyun Nezâreti; French: Ministère de l'Evkaf) was an Ottoman Empire ministry in charge of awqaf (evkaf), administering waqfs (then known in Western languages as "vakouf", from the Turkish name). It was upgraded to a ministry in 1840 after being initially created in the century as the Bureau of Imperial Administration of Evkaf (French: Bureau d'Administration impériale de l'Evkaf).^[1]

References

^ Young, George (1906). Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman (in French). Vol. 6. Clarendon Press. p. 117.

State organisation of the Ottoman Empire

Central system

House of Osman

Ottoman dynasty (Ottoman Caliphate)
Seraglio
Imperial Harem
Enderûn
- Palace Schools

Government

Imperial Council (Porte) (classical period)	Grand Vizier Viziers Kazaskers Defterdars/Ministers of Finance Nişancı Reis ül-Küttab Dragoman of the Porte Birûn
Imperial Government (reform period)	Cadastre Bureau Ministry of Evkaf Ministry of Finance Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Interior Ministry of Justice Ministry of Trade and Agriculture Ministry of War
General Assembly (constitutional period)	Senate Chamber of Deputies (political parties)

Administrative
divisions

Millets	Islam Sheikh ul-Islam Christianity Eastern Orthodox Armenian Apostolic Syriac Orthodox Coptic Orthodox Judaism Hakham Bashi
Provincial	Eyalets Beylerbeys Vilayets Sanjaks Sanjakbeys Mutasarrifates Kazas/Kadiluks Vassal and tributary states Rayas