An ancient history .. Issuing a historical group on the endowments of the Maronite Patriarchate

The “Poet Al -Fayhaa Saba Zureik Foundation” announced in a statement, “the issuance of a group of the most important historical documents for Lebanon’s medieval, modern and contemporary Lebanon, which are the documents of the Maronite Patriarchate Endowments for the period of time from 1239 to 1940, which were appointed to the years of Dr. Antoine Daw, who passed away on April 19 of this year, may God have mercy on him, after he completed the collection of documents from the treasures Bakri, organized, commented on it, and prepared it for printing;

This group of documents is a daily social history of multiple regions of Lebanon, where there were endowments of the Maronite monasticism, simply recorded and honesty of the daily movement of people: buying and selling lands for monasticism and monks, reconciliation between the monks themselves, properties that the people of good stopped, especially for the Monastery of Qanoubin, this is except for many names for Maronite families that existed during that period. With the Maronite monasticism, and it was received and a relief to prove sales between Maronite families, such as Al -Hijjah No. 278, vol. 1 / p. And its type. Likewise, the sale and purchase of lands between the monks and Muslim citizens, as in Hajj No. 729 of 1901 AD (3/1128), where Bishop Yusef Najm, the Patriarchal “Nayyib”, bought the patriarch, from Hassan and Yunus, the children of Hussein Ballout, real estate with a Sprin farm output. The documents also included a statement of what the people of the left from the Maronite community stopped on its poor, such as Hajja No. 458, in 1859, vol. 2 / p. It is noticed in the historical context the development that took place in the codification of endowment arguments and contracts for buying and selling. In the thirteenth and fourteenth century, it was recorded in monasteries and Patriarchate, and a one -bride or a monk witnessed by it. While in the nineteenth century and the twentieth centuries, the arguments are registered in the courts according to the areas where contracts or endowments are carried out, and the sukuk has become more specific and clear, and it has the signatures of the writer and the witnesses of the case employees in the court, including Muslims, including Christians, as in the argument No. 687 of 1892 (3/1034 – 1035), so we find the name of the writer and the witnesses of the case, and most of them are Muslims. This gives us an idea of the development of real estate departments, the records of the sales and purchase bonds and the endowment institutions. The concept of the endowment in the vehicles is overwhelmed by the act of giving, love and humanity to be a bridge between the various components in Lebanon, and he says in its forefront: “The endowment is a well -known and beloved word in Arab -Islamic Christian legal literature. Scientists, jurists and legal people have their opinion, interpretations and their jurisprudence on the concept of endowment. Islamic civilized participants, the theological lights consider that the endowment is sacred, and the property is sacred, and the king is God, and he is in the service of God. The property of the Patriarchate, preserved in the Bakri Taliah Library and we achieved and published it, and issued every argument with its history and number and a brief summary of it in order to facilitate reading on the reading. The saints. ۸۸۳ document or pilgrimage related to these endowments, lights up on how it is purchased by the successive patriarchs, and the people who sold it to the Patriarchate or whom it has stood up for specific purposes related to the message of the service that the Maronite Patriarchate undertakes. These documents – the arguments and their annexes are divided into three volumes located in a thousand and five hundred pages. For its benefits related to the essence of the Maronite theology, on the publications of the poet Al -Fayhaa Foundation, Saba Zureik, in implementation of the provisions of the Partnership and Cooperation Charter concluded between the League and the Foundation on September 22, 2024. This theology was when these endowments and properties, and still, the theology of love, live love and the preference of the poor with love.