The main purpose of the article is to provide
information about the waqf documents for real estate
provided to mosques and madrassas, money amounts for
land plots with signatures of officials and representatives
of various segments of the population in Turkestan, in
particular, Bukhara, Samarkand, Khiva, Khorezm, Tashkent.
It is known that the proceeds from waqfs were used to repair,
restore and maintain mosques and madrasahs, to pay monthly
wages to muezzins and imams, as well as scholarships for
madrasah students.
Methodology: the study used the methods of historical
and comparative-comparative analysis.
Currently, the archives contain thousands of waqf letters
created in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. As a result of
studying these waqf letters, you can get detailed information
about how many donations were made to a particular
mosque or madrasah, who made them, where, and by whom
they were signed.
Referring to various historical documents, we are
convinced that with the arrival of Islam in Central Asia,
land, caravanserais, shops, baths, mills, and other profitable
real estates, as well as money and books, became objects
of waqf. In the first centuries of the spread of Islam on the
territory of the present Namangan region, slaves, cattle,
and tools, which are an integral part of agriculture, were
presented as waqfs. Later they dropped out of the use of
waqfs. In Fergana, and later in the Kokand Khanate, the
khans did not use the profit from the waqf lands, but the land
tax (hiraj and tanop).
The article is devoted to the analysis of historical
documents concerning waqfs, peculiarities of waqfs, as
well as statistical data concerning Islamic architectural
monuments of waqfs.
In conclusion, it was concluded that many mosques
and madrassahs were built and existed on the basis of wakf
donations thanks to the generosity of representatives of our
people.
THE ROLE OF SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION IN CENTRAL ASIA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH DISCOURSES
