Financing the Development of Awqaf Property

This article identifies the various ways in which Islamic endowments helped provide essential services for public welfare during the heyday of Islamic civilization. Four goals are essentially accomplished. One, the importance of endowments in an Islamic society is identified. Two, the various fonns...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1f2be27319ef40529e652078c1b9cc2a2021-12-02T17:49:47ZFinancing the Development of Awqaf Property 10.35632/ajis.v16i4.20992690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/1f2be27319ef40529e652078c1b9cc2a1999-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/2099https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 This article identifies the various ways in which Islamic endowments helped provide essential services for public welfare during the heyday of Islamic civilization. Four goals are essentially accomplished. One, the importance of endowments in an Islamic society is identified. Two, the various fonns of funding that have been used in the past for estab­ lishing Islamic endowments are explored. Three, the ways in which Islamic endowments can be expanded and new funds raised are exam­ined. Finally, the author proposes ways by which public sources can be used to create new sources of funding for awqaf properties. He hopes that these new means can play a major role in developing contemporary Muslim societies. Monzer KahfInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 16, Iss 4 (1999)
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Financing the Development of Awqaf Property
description This article identifies the various ways in which Islamic endowments helped provide essential services for public welfare during the heyday of Islamic civilization. Four goals are essentially accomplished. One, the importance of endowments in an Islamic society is identified. Two, the various fonns of funding that have been used in the past for estab­ lishing Islamic endowments are explored. Three, the ways in which Islamic endowments can be expanded and new funds raised are exam­ined. Finally, the author proposes ways by which public sources can be used to create new sources of funding for awqaf properties. He hopes that these new means can play a major role in developing contemporary Muslim societies.
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