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Population coverage: Less than 40%. Women and children are not included.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Cyprus,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1994-1998.</ref> | Population coverage: Less than 40%. Women and children are not included.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Cyprus,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1994-1998.</ref> | ||
== Records of Endowed Properties [Arabic - | == Records of Endowed Properties [Arabic - Waqfiy~t] == | ||
Research use: This is one of the best sources of lineage linked genealogical information in Islamic society. These registers provide genealogical trees, family groups, and family lineage. | Research use: This is one of the best sources of lineage linked genealogical information in Islamic society. These registers provide genealogical trees, family groups, and family lineage. | ||
Record type: Accounts of land deeded to a mosque or charitable institution. There are two types of waqfs. One is a document which deeds an individual’s property to a mosque or other charitable institution which would thereafter be regarded as the property’s legal owner. The other type of waqf is known as the waqf khass or kharri [private] waqf in which case the property is legally owned by a pious or charitable institution, but the revenues are divided equally among the donor’s descendants, including wife and daughters, through several generations. The waqf may also benefit the extended family including brothers and sisters and their children as well as freed slaves. When there are no more descendants, the revenues accrue to the institution. The waqf system was not uniquely limited to Muslims. | Record type: Accounts of land deeded to a mosque or charitable institution. There are two types of waqfs. One is a document which deeds an individual’s property to a mosque or other charitable institution which would thereafter be regarded as the property’s legal owner. The other type of waqf is known as the waqf khass or kharri [private] waqf in which case the property is legally owned by a pious or charitable institution, but the revenues are divided equally among the donor’s descendants, including wife and daughters, through several generations. The waqf may also benefit the extended family including brothers and sisters and their children as well as freed slaves. When there are no more descendants, the revenues accrue to the institution. The waqf system was not uniquely limited to Muslims. Time period: 1571 to present. The practice of the waqf goes back to at least the 1200s, but the earliest documents date from the 1400. Cyprus came under Ottoman rule in 1571. | ||
Time period: 1571 to present. The practice of the waqf goes back to at least the 1200s, but the earliest documents date from the 1400. Cyprus came under Ottoman rule in 1571. | |||
Contents: Names of heirs, including even wives and daughters, over several generations. Some waqfs kept track of the deaths of beneficiaries also. The documents were signed in the presence of witnesses and certified by a judge [qadi]. | Contents: Names of heirs, including even wives and daughters, over several generations. Some waqfs kept track of the deaths of beneficiaries also. The documents were signed in the presence of witnesses and certified by a judge [qadi]. | ||
Location: The offical copy was kept by the qadi or was registered and kept by the appropriate department of the government. There may be some microfilm copies at the Cyprus Turkish National Archive and Research Center, Girne (Kyrenia) in North¬ern Cyprus. There is a major collection of originals at Ev kaf Dairesi in Leukosia. | Location: The offical copy was kept by the qadi or was registered and kept by the appropriate department of the government. There may be some microfilm copies at the Cyprus Turkish National Archive and Research Center, Girne (Kyrenia) in North¬ern Cyprus. There is a major collection of originals at Ev kaf Dairesi in Leukosia. | ||
Population coverage: Less than 30%; pertains only to families with property. | Population coverage: Less than 30%; pertains only to families with property. | ||
Accessibility: Generally limited to scholars.<ref name="profile"/> | Accessibility: Generally limited to scholars.<ref name="profile" /> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||