This article contains the names of forty men who signed the vakif<\/i> in 1365 of Murad I. A vakif<\/i>,or waqf<\/i> as it is called now, was a document that endows property to a religious institution. There are both Christian and ex-Christian names included in the signatories, showing that the early Ottoman empire had made use of both religions in the areas it had conquered.<\/p>\nNote on Special Characters<\/h4>\n
These names have been transliterated from an Arabic script using the conventions of modern Turkish. In the modern Turkish system, the sound of the letter\u00a0I<\/i> depends on whether or not it is dotted. In this article, i\u00a0<\/i>stands for a dotted letter I<\/i>, and I<\/i> stands for the undotted letter. More information about the Turkish alphabet and the Ottoman script is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n These names are constructed using an Arabic-style patronymic, in which the given name is followed by bin<\/i>, meaning “son of.”<\/p>\n Baybars bin N\u00fcsret<\/p>\n Ahmed \u00c7avu\u015f el-Bevvah<\/p>\n Kutlu Beg bin ‘Abdullah<\/p>\n Bengar Beg bin Alo(?)<\/p>\n \u02bbAbdullah Beg bin Hamza<\/p>\n Pazarlu bin Dimitroz(?)<\/p>\n \u015eirin Hamza bin \u02bbAbdullah<\/p>\n Haci Sungur(?) al-Hadim<\/p>\n Musa bin Haydar<\/p>\n Begbars bin el-Katib<\/p>\n \u020alyaz bin Parzarlu<\/p>\n Cafer bin Pulad<\/p>\n Haci Evroz (Evrenoz?) bin \u00c7emiski<\/p>\n Sara-jeddin bin Osman<\/p>\n Haci Mustafa bin Mehmed<\/p>\n \u02bbAli bin \u020asmail el-Muhtesib<\/p>\n Haci Hizir bin Mehmed<\/p>\n Haci \u020abrahim bin Hasan el-Bezzaz<\/p>\n \u015eerefeddin bin \u02bbAbdullah<\/p>\n Salih bin Halil<\/p>\n Fettah bin \u02bbAbdullah<\/p>\n \u020alyas bin Halil<\/p>\n \u020alyas bin Mustafa<\/p>\n Haci Emirhan bin Rakh(?)<\/p>\n Hasan bin Sabuni(?)<\/p>\n Mehmed bin S\u00fcleyman<\/p>\n \u02bbAbdulaziz bin \u02bbAbdulgafar<\/p>\n Haci bin \u00d6mer<\/p>\n Mahmud bin \u02bbAbdullah<\/p>\n Haci Hasan bin \u02bbAbdullah<\/p>\n Haci Sadeddin bin Haci Mehmed Fakih(?)<\/p>\n Haci Pulad bin Emirahor<\/p>\n \u02bbAli bin Nukud al-na-ib<\/p>\n Umur Beg bin Koskos\/Kosfos(?) Suba\u015fi<\/p>\n Hevace Osman bin Emire Mehmed<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bibliography<\/strong><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n Main Source<\/b><\/p>\n G\u00f6kbilgin, \u201cMurad I\u201d (1953), pg. 233, found in\u00a0The Nature of the Early Ottoman State,<\/em> by Heath W. Lowry, (published by State University of New York Press, Albany, 2003)<\/p>\n Other Sources<\/b><\/p>\n “Murad I”, Encyclopaedia Britannica.\u00a0https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Murad-I<\/a><\/p>\nName Structure<\/h4>\n
Waqf Contributors<\/h4>\n
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