Jan 29, 2005 09:27
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Arabic term

وقف

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موظف على العقار راتب انزال سنوي قدره **** مرسم نقلا في المجلد عدد*** لفائدة وقف الجامع الكبير.

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Non-ProZ.com Jan 29, 2005:
This statement is part of selling contract of a parcel of land. It is related to the tunisian law practices.

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Wakf "endowment"

for the interest of Grand Mosque's 'Wakf' endowment
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agree Aisha Maniar : agree with using the original term in transliteration and then providing the translation in brackets
1 day 2 hrs
agree AhmedAMS
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Arabic term (edited): ���

Endowment

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agree Nancy Eweiss : (religious) endowment
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agree A Nabil Bouitieh
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agree amana(Ayman B.)
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mortmain

An unusual but very accurate option!

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Heirs of the Prophets [Chapter 3]
... endowments, waqf (mortmain) waxed larger and larger and tended to absorb the greater
part ... Now even as Arabia is the cradle of Islam, the mosque is the cradle ...
answering-islam.org.uk/Books/Zwemer/Heirs/chap3.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

29. The functions of the religious institution of the caliphate
... If the mosque is one of the great mosques under the administration of the ... who are
under the care of guardians; supervision of wills and mortmain do­nations ...
www.muslimphilosophy.com/ ik/Muqaddimah/Chapter3/Ch_3_29.htm - 48k - Cached - Similar pages

MAHOMMEDAN INSTITUTIONS - LoveToKnow Article on MAHOMMEDAN ...
... The law and usage of religious foundations in perpetuity (waqf, mortmain) became
as ... caliph to lead the people personally in prayer in the mosque, he delegated ...
42.1911encyclopedia.org/ M/MA/MAHOMMEDAN_INSTITUTIONS.htm - 31k - Cached - Similar pages


Table of Contents and Excerpt, Borsch, The Black Death in Egypt ...
... waqfiyyat and accompanying endowed institutions (waqf) are analogous to mortmain
in Europe ... institutions could be as vast as the enormous mosque-madrasa complex ...
www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exborbla.html - 80k - Cached - Similar pages

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