Manuscripts: Endowments (legal property)

MAHS-MDV-COL-003-O-0177

Waqf document for a mosque commissioned by Queen Kanba Aisha Rani Kilege. An English translation of this text has been published in: Ahmed Nazim Sattar, King Kalaafaan Manuscripts: How the Maldives Monarchy Treasured the Remembrance of a Fallen King for More than Four Hundred Years (Malé: National Centre of Linguistic and Historical Research, 2010), 67. This work is open-access available from the Virtual Library of the Maldives Heritage Survey website. The original document is kept in the Maldives National Archives in Male’.