Several new facts on employees of Isa-bey’s wakf in Sarajevo at the end of 17th and beginning of 18th century

Abstract

Following the court documents that had not been published earlier, this paper deals with a couple of individuals who managed Gazi Isa-bey’s wakfs in Sarajevo at the end pof 17th and beginning of 18the century. It concentrates on struggle among Isa-bey’s descendants over the position of mutawalli, renovation of buildings destroyed by fire during the attack by Eugene of Savoy on Sarajevo in 1697, leasing of wakf property, management of wakf income, relations with guild and court authorities, frequent complaints to the High Porte about the work of some wakf employees, and the directive of Istanbul that the alleged abuse in the wakf management be investigated and sanctioned.