TY  - BOOK
AU  - McChesney,R.D.
TI  - Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9780691605449
AV  - BP187.55.A3 B345 1991eb
U1  - 297/.35 20
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Balkh Region
KW  - History
KW  - Islamic shrines
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abbasid Caliphate
KW  - Abd Al-Rahman
KW  - Abd al-Mu'min
KW  - Abu Bakr
KW  - Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib
KW  - Abu Yazid
KW  - Abu Yusuf
KW  - Abu'l-Khayr Khan
KW  - Ahab
KW  - Ahl al-Bayt
KW  - Ahmad Shah
KW  - Al-Ghazali
KW  - Al-Qastallani
KW  - Al-Shahrastani
KW  - Ali Mardan Khan
KW  - Appanage
KW  - Aqsaqal
KW  - Ardabil
KW  - Ashraf Ghani
KW  - Atabeg
KW  - Badakhshan
KW  - Bahram (Shahnameh)
KW  - Balkh
KW  - Banna'i
KW  - Battle of Khaybar
KW  - Bayazid Bastami
KW  - Bukhara
KW  - Caliphate
KW  - Central Asia
KW  - Central Authority
KW  - Dastur al-Muluk
KW  - Deployment plan
KW  - Dushanbe
KW  - Emirate
KW  - Foreign policy
KW  - Hanafi
KW  - Hegira
KW  - Herat
KW  - Hulagu Khan
KW  - Ibn Battuta
KW  - Ishmael in Islam
KW  - Iskandar (Timurid dynasty)
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islamic culture
KW  - Islamic state
KW  - Ja'far al-Sadiq
KW  - Kandahar
KW  - Karbala
KW  - Kashgar
KW  - Khagan
KW  - Khan (title)
KW  - Khanate
KW  - Khaybar
KW  - Khoja (Turkestan)
KW  - Kipchaks
KW  - Majlis
KW  - Maoism
KW  - Mazar-i-Sharif
KW  - Mihrab
KW  - Mufti
KW  - Muhammad Akram
KW  - Muhammad Ishaq
KW  - Muhammad Khan (Ilkhan)
KW  - Muhammad Salih
KW  - Muhammad al-Baqir
KW  - Muhammad al-Shaybani
KW  - Muhammad of Ghor
KW  - Mukhayriq
KW  - Murad Bakhsh
KW  - Naqshbandi
KW  - Oedipus complex
KW  - Qadi
KW  - Rabi' al-awwal
KW  - Rustam (Haqqani network)
KW  - Safavid dynasty
KW  - Sahabah
KW  - Samarkand
KW  - Sayyid
KW  - Shafi'i
KW  - Shah Jahan
KW  - Shahnameh
KW  - Shahrbanu
KW  - Shams al-Din Muhammad
KW  - Sheikh
KW  - Shia Islam
KW  - Shrine of Ali
KW  - Sufism
KW  - Syncretism
KW  - Tariqa
KW  - Timur
KW  - Transoxiana
KW  - Turkistan (city)
KW  - Umayyad Caliphate
KW  - Uthman
KW  - Uzbek language
KW  - Uzbeks
KW  - Waqf
KW  - Yaqut al-Hamawi
KW  - Zaidiyyah
KW  - Zakat
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Note on Transliteration --; Abbreviations --; Maps --; CHAPTER ONE. Introduction --; CHAPTER TWO. The Origins of the 'Alid Shrine at Balkh --; CHAPTER THREE. Waqf in Its Political Setting --; CHAPTER FOUR. Balkh, 1599-1647: Appanage Politics and the Growth of the 'Alid Waqf --; CHAPTER FIVE. Balkh and the Shrine, 1651-1681 --; CHAPTER SIX. The Evolution of the Shrine and Its Administration --; CHAPTER SEVEN. The Eclipse of the Appanage System: Balkh toward the End of the Seventeenth Century --; CHAPTER EIGHT. The Waqf Administration, 1668-1738 --; CHAPTER NINE. The Nadirid Occupation of Balkh, 1737-1747 --; CHAPTER TEN. The Consequences of Autonomy: The Emergence of a Shrine-State in the Century after 1747 --; CHAPTER ELEVEN. Shrine-State to Provincial Capital: The Muhammadza'i Mandate in Balkh, 1849-1889 --; CHAPTER TWELVE. Waqf under the Afghans --; CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Shrine-State to State Shrine --; CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Conclusions --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Waqfs, or religious endowments, have long been at the very center of daily Islamic life, establishing religious, cultural, and welfare institutions and serving as a legal means to keep family property intact through several generations. In this book R. D. McChesney focuses on the major Muslim shrine at Balkh--once a flourishing city on an ancient trade route in what is now northern Afghanistan--and provides a detailed study of the political, economic, and social conditions that influenced, and were influenced by, the development of a single religious endowment. From its founding in 1480 until 1889, when the Afghan government took control of it, the waqf at Balkh was a formidable economic force in a financially dynamic region, particularly during those times when the endowment's sacred character and the tax privileges it acquired gave its managers considerable financial security. This study sheds new light on the legal institution of waqf within Muslim society and on how political conditions affected the development of socio-religious institutions throughout Central Asia over a period of four hundred years.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400861965
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