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This study examines the waqf strategy pursued by the Evrenosoğulları family, one of the most significant actors in the Ottoman Empire’s Rumelian conquests, in and around Thessaloniki from the late fourteenth century to the mid-eighteenth century. The research draws upon archival sources including temliknâmes (property grant documents) and waqfiyyah (waqf deeds), as well as academic studies on Gazi Evrenos Bey, his family, and their waqfs. The central argument of the analysis is that the hereditary trusteeship system, known as “evlâdiyet ve meşrûtiyet üzere mütevellilik,” was not merely a simple inheritance mechanism for transferring family property to the next generation; rather, it functioned as an “ontological security” mechanism that helped secure the sustainability of the waqf and the preservation of the family’s social, economic, and symbolic capital across generations. The research findings reveal that the Evrenosoğulları defended their waqf rights through qadi courts over four centuries, maintained institutional continuity despite internal family conflicts, and that the need for hereditary trusteeship diminished with the establishment of the Imperial Waqf Ministry (Evkâf-ı Hümâyun Nezâreti) in 1826. The article approaches Ottoman waqf history from a sociological perspective, offering a methodological contribution to the use of the concept of ontological security in institutional continuity analysis.

This study explores Timur’s economic leğacy, examininğ the system he established to sustain and prosper his vast empire. Timur’s economic policies, which were closely linked to his conquests, played an important role in revitalizinğ the Silk Road and transforminğ cities such as Samarkand and Herat into economic and cultural centers. This study examines the main elements of Timur’s economic system, such as centralized administration, taxation system, development of cities and ağricultural policies. It also hiğhliğhts Timur’s efforts to secure lonğ-distance trade routes and unite different reğions into a coherent economic framework. The analysis hiğhliğhts the specific features and limitations of Timur’s model, especially its structure based on conquest-based wealth and the forced displacement of skilled human capital. It also addresses the socio-economic implications of Timur’s economic policies and contrasts the prosperity of urban centers with the burdens on rural populations. Timur’s economic strateğies had a lastinğ impact on the economic history of Turkestan and Eurasia more broadly, demonstratinğ the transformative potential of trade, infrastructure and cultural development.

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Human beings are social beings by nature, living within and with society. The ontological rationale of society is public services. Public services are both the cause and the result of people living together. One of the few things that have continued to exist with the human species from the earliest times to the present day is public services. This phenomenon may indicate the strong necessity and high adaptability of public services. Throughout the historical process, humanity has applied many models to produce public services, and in today's modern material civilization, public services are produced by the Nation State, and the cost of these services is covered by taxes collected from society. In this study, while the sustainability of the methods used by nation states to finance public services is being discussed, a critical perspective on the sustainability paradigm is also presented. The discussion highlights the necessity of developing public service financing methods that do not require sustainability and proposes the waqf paradigm as an alternative suggestion. The proposal is concretized with examples from the Ottoman period Rumelian cash waqfs.

This study is intended to discuss turning a broken global supply chain into an opportunity by Turkey in post-COVID-19 period and the possibility to be an alternative to China in the sectors in which Turkey is more advantageous and solution seeking to repair the employment structure which has been damaged in pandemic process. Partial direct backward linkages coefficients of both countries were calculated and Leontief similarity test and Spearman correlation test were applied to the obtained coefficients, and the results of both tests were evaluated together. As a result of the analysis, sectors having the advantage of Turkey's foreign trade is as follows: “manufacture of food products”, “manufacture of textiles”, "manufacture of other non-metalic mineral products", "construction" “manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials” and “manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products, manufacture of electrical equipment”. The activities of the first 4 of these sectors are among the 6 activities which were published by TOBB and they were most affected by the Covid-19 outbreak and closed down.electronic and optical products, manufacture of electrical equipment”.