Aslı Yanbul: In the Muslim mahalles of pre-nineteenth-century Istanbul, the central figure of the neighborhood community was the religious leader of the local mosque, the imam. He was indeed an influential man and, at times, a local potentate of sorts. Certainly not because of the meager powers given him within the administrative setup of towns in the central Ottoman lands but rather, as we shall see in greater detail in the case of the Kasap İlyas mahalle, simply because he was often relatively well-off—if not outright wealthy. Besides, his legal position as trustee of a number of pious foundations put him in command of a nonnegligible amount of local economic resources.

In the Muslim mahalles of pre-nineteenth-century Istanbul, the central figure of the neighborhood community was the religious leader of the local mosque, the imam. He was indeed an influential man and, at times, a local potentate of sorts. Certainly not because of the meager powers given him within the administrative setup of towns in the central Ottoman lands but rather, as we shall see in greater detail in the case of the Kasap İlyas mahalle, simply because he was often relatively well-off—if not outright wealthy. Besides, his legal position as trustee of a number of pious foundations put him in command of a nonnegligible amount of local economic resources.

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