ABSTRACT
On the sixth of August 1876, in their mansion on the Bosphorus waterfront, the former Grand Vizier Yusuf Kamil Pasha (1808-76) and his wife Zeynep Hanım (Lady Zeynep) (1825-84), the youngest daughter of Mehmed Ali Pasha, Ottoman Governor of Egypt, endowed the hospital they newly created in Istanbul from their privy purse for the benefit of the poor Muslims, as worded in the following reference in the deed (waqfiye):1
We endowed [the above mentioned properties and revenues], and we made the stipulations in a most suitable way, so that either men or women Muslims in need of health care in Üsküdar (Scutari) be accepted to the mentioned hospital, and be offered free treatment in separate rooms with greatest attention and respect, and be accompanied to their homes after their complete recovery.
