Loan Charities and Cash Waqfs: Moral Credit in England and Ottoman Rumelia, c.1500–C.1800
Cultural and Social History, cilt.23, sa.3, ss.321-342, 2026 (AHCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 23 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/14780038.2026.2631261
- Dergi Adı: Cultural and Social History
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, American History and Life, Historical Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Political Science Complete
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.321-342
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Cash waqfs, charitable credit institutions, comparative economic history, loan charities, Ottoman and English social history
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This article compares Ottoman ‘cash waqfs’ and English endowed ‘loan charities’ as pre-modern institutions turning charity into liquidity for households and small producers. Using close reading and corpus coding, it analyses 953 Rumelian cash-waqf deeds and 82 loan-related entries from London charities compilation, coding eligibility, security, repayment terms, and yield design. Both institutionalised moral credit, but with distinct governance and revenue logics. Ottoman cash waqfs embedded lending in waqf law and trustee succession to protect principal and fund recurrent payouts, while loan charities often combined interest-free lending with corporate trusteeship and investment in public funds.