A new looking at deed for an endowment of Imamaieh school of Shiraz (second part)

Safavi period is one of period of increasing the endowment in Iran. Following to religious nature of Safavi reign and concentrate on promoting Shi’a religion and the training of religious sciences students , endowment in educational area with building different schools in big cities was one of the most important function on endowment in this time.Imamyeh school is one of the endowed school in Shah Soleyman Safavi period that was built by Imam Verdibeig ,Governor of Fars, for eagers and seekers of religious science in Shiraz (Dar al-elm) and it was endowed to teachers and students inhabiting in it and then , in order to provide its costs, at first many real estates of endowment including lands, gardens , stores , caravan-serai, bathes , aqueduct ,… in Shiraz and its suburbs were endowed to holy shrines of 14 ma’soom imams (innocent) and then to school. The details of these endowed properties and detailed conditions that determined by benefactor to attract professors and students and way of spending the incomes from endowed properties have been set as formal deed for an endowment and signed and proved by 20 present witnesses. In the previous issue, parts of this deed for an endowment has been mentioned and two remaining parts of this document, that is, identity papers and its endorsement are investigated in this article.