Valide Sultanların Kurduğu Vakıfların Kadına Yönelik Sosyal Hizmetleri

Abstract

The foundations finds life on the basis of cooperation and solidarity in the society have served in many areas, and they continuetogive. The foundation services has been presented in many areas in touch with individuals such as education, food, health, housing, welfare, employment and so on. Thus, individuals with different conditions is planned to live in unity in the same community. More over the foundations assume the role of social catalyst by contributing to the development of the living space with many services such as roads, bridges, fountains, schools, mosques, baths, etc. This institution which gained importance in Ottoman society has been inspired to services that may be taken as samples in today's society. It has found life in society as a basis of social trust and solidarity. The purpose in this article is to explain the contribution of woman to the construction of the public arena for the merging of the different social strata with each others in the society by means of the foundation and also to declare what are the social services towards woman. In the research the literature review was conducted; the data were collected and interpreted by examining the written sources in the field, as well as examining the sample foundation certificate-charters from the archive books of the General Directorate of Foundations of Ankara and Samsun; the protective, preventive and problem-solving functions and services of the foundations were identified in terms of the social services. The results obtained indicate that woman has taken an active role in the social field and effectively participates in the field of social responsibility.