ILCAA Joint Research Project

Archival study on fiscal administration of holy shrines in Muslim societies: A case of the Safavid shrine in Iran (2) (jrp000275)

photographed by Hisashi ABE

Keywords

• Safavids
• Shi‘a
• saint mausoleum
• Sufism
• tariqa
• documents diplomatics
• palaeography accountancy
• Islamic law
• shurut

Areas

• West Asia
• Central Asia
• South Asia

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2021–March, 2024

  In Muslim societies of West and Central Asia, many mausoleums dedicated to Islamic saints have accumulated great wealth through religious influence. This study seeks to clarify the property management and administration systems of these mausoleums in order to reveal their economic basis, shed light on their social and economic role in society, and illuminate their relationship with political powers. Through surveys of historical materials related to property management owned by the Mausoleum of Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn Ardabīlī (d. 1334) in Northwest Iran, this research project aims to clarify various aspects of the formation and development of the property management systems of mausoleums dedicated to saints and their relations with the state and society in medieval and early modern Iran. This study will also compare these cases with cases in other regions of the Muslim world.

Members

Coordinator

• Ryoko WATABE

ILCAA Staff

• Nobuaki KONDO
• Yoichi TAKAMATSU
• Satoshi OGURA

Joint Researchers

• Naofumi ABE
• Yukako GOTO
• Tomoko MORIKAWA
• Ayako NINOMIYA
• Hiroshi ONO
• Masaki SUGIYAMA
• Ryuichi SUGIYAMA
• Sanae TAKAGI
• Yoichi YAJIMA
• Akihiko YAMAGUCHI

Outputs

Meetings

The 7th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 18 Nov 2023 14:00–18:00
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 3F Seminar Room

• 14:00–15:00 Haruya SHISHIDO (Meiji University)

  Ismail II, the “Tyrant” of the Safavid Empire in the 16th century: What were the realities of his policies?

  15:00–15:30 Yukako GOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kwansei Gakuin University)

  Comment

  15:30–16:20

  General discussion

  16:20–16:30

  Break

  16:30–17:30 Naofumi ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ochanomizu University)

  An Introductory Study of the Inventory of the Movable Property of the Shaykh Safi Shrine.

  17:30–18:00

  General discussion

The 6th meeting

• Date/Time: Fri 8 Sep 2023 10:00–12:30
• Venue: Online meeting

• 10:00–10:10

  Introduction

  10:10–11:00 Ryoko WATABE (the University of Tokyo)

  Records of waqf properties in the real esate inventory of Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn Ardabīlī’s shrine: A preparatory study focusing on their relationship with the documentary sources and marginal notes in manuscripts.

  11:00–12:00

  General discussion

  12:00–12:30

  Discussion about the joint research plan

The 5th meeting

• Date/Time: Sun 22 Jan 2023 13:00–17:30
• Venue: 304

• 13:30–13:40 Ryoko WATABE (the University of Tokyo)

  Opening remarks

  13:40–15:10 Jun SUGAWARA (Lanzhou University, Center for the Studies on Ethnic Minorities of Northwest China)

  Quantitative Approach to the Waqf Properties in the Early 20th Century Kashghar.

  15:10–15:20

  Break

  15:20–15:50 Ryoko WATABE (the University of Tokyo)

  Registration of waqfs in the real esate inventory of Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn Ardabīlī’s shrine (Ardabīl, Iran)

  15:50–16:10 Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA)

  Comment

  16:10–16:30 Ayako NINOMIYA (Aoyama Gakuin University)

  Comment

  16:30–16:40

  Break

  16:40–17:20

  General discussion

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: Wed 3 Aug 2022 14:30–17:30
• Venue: Online meeting

• 14:30–14:40

  Introduction

  14:40–15:40 Akihiko YAMAGUCHI (Sophia University) , Ayako NINOMIYA (Aoyama Gakuin University) , Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA)

  Review roundtable

  15:40–16:40 Yukako GOTO (Kwansei Gakuin University) , Ryoko WATABE (The University of Tokyo) , Sanae TAKAGI (Waseda University) , Naofumi ABE (Ochanomizu University) , Ryu’ichi SUGIYAMA (Kyoto Tachibana University) , Masaki SUGIYAMA (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies) , Yo'ichi YAJIMA (Nara Women's University) , Hiroshi ONO (Kyoto Tachibana University) , Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) , Tomoko MORIKAWA (The University of Tokyo)

  Replies from the contributors

  16:40–16:50

  Break

  16:50–17:30

  General Discussions

The 3rd meeting

• Date/Time: Sun 29 May 2022 10:00–12:00
• Venue: Online meeting

• 1. Ryoko WATABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, the University of Tokyo)

  “Reading and analysis of socio-historical information from Sarih al-Milk (the real estate inventories) of Shaykh Safi’s shrine (1): Ardabil district, Adharbayjan (1)”

  2. All members

  General discussion

The 2nd meeting

• Date/Time: Tue 29 Mar 2022 13:00–15:00
• Venue: Online meeting

• 1. Ryoko WATABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, the University of Tokyo)

  “Brief report on the method for analyzing historical information from real estate inventories of Shaykh Safi’s shrine: The case of the real estate in Ardabil district”

  2. All members

  Reading and discussion of the text

The 1st meeting

• Date/Time: Mon 28 Feb 2022 15:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting

• 1. Ryoko WATABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, the University of Tokyo)

  “Recent survey of the historical materials and studies on the Shrine of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili, the Safavid dynastic shrine”

  2. All members

  Discussion of the detailed program for the joint research




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