Open AccessLes bibliothèques vakıf-s à Istanbul au XVIe siècle, prémices de grandes bibliothèques publiques
Author(s) -
Faruk Bilici
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
revue du monde musulman et de la méditerranée/revue des mondes musulmans et de la méditerranée
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.132
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2105-2271
pISSN - 0997-1327
DOI - 10.4000/remmm.296
Subject(s) - fiqh , islam , reading (process) , art , humanities , political science , library science , history , sharia , law , computer science , archaeology
Since the creation of the first vakıf library in Istanbul in 1459, this city saw die creation of many reading places thanks to the foundations. They were mainly small libraries created by leading royal families, eunuchs, pachas and ulema. Only seven out of the forty founders, studied here do not belong to these categories. Almost all of these libraries were dedicated to a religious establishment (medreses, Islamic schools, mosques, turbes, tekkes). These libraries were mosdy concentrated in Istanbul inner city, but also in Eyüb, Kasim Paşa, Zincirlikuyu and Uskiidar. Vakfiye also underline the religious character of these libraries: they contained Qurans, books ofhadith,fiqh and kalâm as well as language books. Even Cihangir (created by Mahmud b. Abdullah al-Mennan), the only library which offered popular novels, does not invalidate this rule. The main condition for lending a book in the 16th century is for it to stay in Istanbul. These small libraries are the precursors of institutional libraries which appeared in the 17th century