Title: Haseki Hürrem Sultan ve vakıfların altın çağı
Description: In addition to the institutions related to the religion, military and educational life of the Ottoman Empire, it has come to the forefront with its commercial traditions and structures such as inn, caravanserai and bazaar. These buildings are the product of an ancient tradition. The Ottoman sultans, who thought that they were personally responsible for their rulings, also gave importance to raising and preserving the level of the people's spirit of welfare thus, that is, the level of the society, and they established a system that would stand as long as the world existed. it has been an effective tool for the fulfillment of social responsibility and the role it undertakes in the solidarity and distribution of welfare. In this system where religious and national ideas are at the forefront, the needs of the other living things have been met as well as trying to meet all the needs of the people. In addition to the established foundations, the Turkish states that had stamped on the geography they had dominated with their charitable works, and then the Ottoman Empire, sowed the seeds of unity which were impossible to destroy.
Subjects: Waqf, Endowments, History, Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law), Harems, Women, Social conditions
Places: Turkey, Istanbul
People: Hurrem consort of Süleyman I, Sultan of the Turks (approximately 1504-1558)
Time periods: 16th century