1 The Relationship between Waqf Endowments and Archiving

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Note on Transliteration, Terminology and Dates xii
6. List of Abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction: Transcending the ‘Archive Problem’ 1
8. 1 The Relationship between Waqf Endowments and Archiving 31
9. Part I Notaries, Qadis and Document Production
10. 2 The Document as Archive 63
11. 3 A Mass of Documentation 97
12. Part II The Waqf Archive
13. 4 The Waqf Archive of Sultan al-Ghawrī 131
14. 5 The Life of a Waqf Archive 165
15. Part III A Late-Mamluk Archival Landscape
16. 6 The Dynamics of Private Property Archiving 197
17. 7 Accumulating Documents across the Mamluk Capital 227
18. Closing Remarks 263
19. Appendix 1 List of Documents in al-Ghawrī’s Waqf Archive 269
20. Appendix 2 List of Documents in the Qaraite Corpus 287
21. Bibliography 291
22. Index 317