出版社：Middle East Documentation Center (MEDOC), University of Chicago
摘要：Religious endowments formed an important part of spiritual and legal life in the pre-modern Islamic world. Much has been written on the religious foundations for al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf by the sultan Saladin (Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn) after his conquest of Jerusalem in 583/1187. 1 But his were only the first in a long tradition of endowments in her “Noble Holiness,” al-Quds al-Sharīf, as the city was called in contemporary writings. From the seventh/thirteenth century onwards, Jerusalem was the place of numerous endowments by high-ranking Mamluk officials and ladies who founded mausoleums (sing. turbah), colleges (sing. madrasah), Sufi hospices (sing. khānqāh), and Sufi-convents (sing. zāwiyah). These buildings shaped the city and some still exist today. 2 As private institutions with their own sources of revenue, these foundations fulfilled social and religious functions, provided teaching posts for religious scholars, and paid for worship services both within their own confines and within the holy district, al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf, with its two sanctuaries, al-Masjid al-Aqṣá and the Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al- Ṣakhrah). 3 Some attention has been given to the founders of these endowments, the economic support they provided, and their history in the centuries after the Mamluk period.
