The Title of the Khan's Certificate of Exoneration: Inoyat-name
Certificates of Inoyat-name
As seen from the land tax survey journal of the Fergana region for 1905 and the interrogation protocol from 1907, mutawaliya Hasan-bek (brother of Abdullabek) stated that each plot consisted of about seven tanaps of urban land. There were 161 trading shops on them. In the same year, 1875, Khudoyar-khan issued a special document freeing the mentioned lands, as well as the donated trading shops, from taxes.
Abdullabek was issued the following exonerating Khan's certificate of Inoyat-name (translated from Tajik by V.P. Yudin): “At present, let all hakims, amins, qazis, noble ulemas, and sheikhs of Islam, and (all persons) involved in sultan's affairs, and who have taken on responsibility in khan's activities, and other sarkars, amins, aksakals, and all kedkhudais of the high state know and understand that in the days of our ever-increasing and eternally accompanying power of our august majesty, chubazirat-pansat Abdullabek-datka bought numerous shops with land suitable for construction on the banks of the say of the Osh province, turned it into a waqf for the madrasah built by his father, the late Alymbek-parvanachi, and prepared a waqf certificate adorned with the seals of qazis and ulemas, (which) was honored with the consideration of our majesty's bright gaze. From (our goodwill and favor towards this person) we commanded that all hakims, amins, and sarkars and others related consider the waqfs, the boundaries of which are defined in the waqf certificate, as an absolute waqf of the mentioned madrasah, not to demand or strive to collect dirhems and fuls from it (and) not to encroach on anything similar, related to the mentioned waqfs, and, considering this reason resolved, not to violate (our) greatest, mandatory for execution firman. In the month of Rajab of the honored year 1292 [1875].” The document is sealed with the small seal of Khudoyar-khan dated 1279 of the hijra year, according to the Islamic calendar (1863-1864).
The second certificate contained the following: “Waqf-name of the Kyrgyz feudal Abdullabek regarding his donation of two plots of land to the waqf of his father's madrasah Alymbek datkha in the city of Osh in 1292 (1875). The madrasah made of burnt brick in the city of Osh consists of a daras-khana, khanaka, and 28 cells. Boundaries: to the west - the cemetery and say, to the south - the waqf shops of the madrasah, to the east - the road, to the north - the cemetery.
Two plots of land by the Osh say, one near the other, with a length of the plots - 443 arshins. The first plot has boundaries: to the west - the mill ditch of Mirza-Rahim arbakesh, to the south - the road, to the east - Osh say, to the north - the land owned by Mulla Husen-Ali Mulla Pirimkulov, the donor, and Mulla Muhammad-Aziz Mahzuma Damulla Tangrikulov. The second plot has boundaries: to the west - the mill ditch, to the south - the land of Mir-Seid Sheikh, Abjuazi Abdrakhmanbai Mulla Khal Muhammadov and Abjuazi Ishan Khoji, to the north - the road. There are shops on this plot.
In the month of Zil Qada of the 1292 year (according to the Islamic calendar), Abdullabek-datka, son of Alymbek Parvanachi Hasanbek-biyev declared that he donates the mentioned plots of land to the waqf for the madrasah. Mutawali: the donor himself, and after him - his descendants.
The income of the waqf should go towards the repair of the madrasah, and the remainder should be divided into 10 parts: 1 - for the mutawili, 3 - for the mudarris, 1 - for the imam, 1 - for the muazzin, the guard, and the barber, and 4 - for the benefit of the students.” The document is sealed with 20 seals of qazis, ulemas, and several other officials. There is no imprint of the khan's seal on it.
Another similar certificate was issued to the owner in 1875 by Pulat-khan, the last claimant to the Kokand throne. It stated that the Khodzhalyar ditch, owned by Abdullabek-datka (a supporter of Pulat-khan, on behalf of whom he even ruled Kokand in January 1876), is exempt from khiraj, which should go to the benefit of the Imam-Ata shrine and the Khydyr-datka mosque.
Tax collectors were instructed “not to touch the khiraj of the mentioned ditch in any way.”
This is a common form of document, meaning that the state renounces tax in favor of the waqf establishment, but the residents who inhabited and cultivated the lands still had to pay the established tax norm, albeit to the new owner - the waqf institution. Thus, the residents engaged in agriculture on the waqf land of Alymbek's madrasah regularly paid khiraj in the amount of 1/5 of the harvest.
Evading tax payments by waqf founders
