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Held in trust : Waqf in the Islamic world /
Waqfs (pious endowments) long held a crucial place in the political, economic, and social life of the Islamic world. Waqfs were major sources of education, health care, and employment; they shaped the city and contributed to the upkeep of religious edifices. They constituted a major resource, and th...
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Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Cairo Scholarship Online.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : pious foundations : from here to eternity? / Pascale Ghazaleh
- Dervishes, waqfs, and conquest : notes on early Ottoman expansion in Thrace / Riza Yildirim
- Piety and profit : the Haramayn Endowments in Egypt (1517-1814) / Husam 'Abd al-Mu'ti
- The Sadir al-Fuqaha' wa-l-Fuqara' Endowment (Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi) in Alexandria during the eighteenth century / Nasir Ibrahim
- Control of urban waqfs in al-Salt, Transjordan / Michael J. Reimer
- Zawiyat Sidi al-Ghazi : survival of a traditional religious institution / John A. Shoup
- Guild waqf : between religious law and common law / Nelly Hanna)
- Waqfs of Cyrenaica and Italian colonialism in Libya (1911-41) / Anna Maria Medici
- The waqf system : maintenance, repair, and upkeep / Dina Ishak Bakhoum)
- The role of Waqf in shaping and preserving urban areas : the historical commercial center of Adana / Tuba Akar
- Conclusion : Ottoman waqfs as acts of citizenship / Engin F. Isin.