抄録
Waqf, the religious and pious foundation, is the social institution known in the geographically and historically extensive Islamic cultural area, it is therefore important for clarifying the characteristic of Islamic cities to study how Waqf affected to form a social and physical urban structure. From this viewpoint, this paper focuses on revealing a physical urban structure and forming process of Istanbul, as one case, during the 15th and 16th centuries by analyzing a pattern of facilities' locations recorded in the Waqf deed or its survey registers. As a result, it is recognized that religious and public facilities tended to be dispersed across the city area while commercial facilities tended to be concentrated in a specific area, so that the territorial difference of urban function in the city emerged at that time.
