Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Moham. Law) The granting or dedication of property in trust for a pious purpose, that is, to some object that tends to the good of mankind, as to support a mosque or caravansary, to provide for support of one's family, kin, or neighbors, to benefit some particular person or persons and afterward the poor, etc.; also, the trust so created, or the property in trust.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
waqf .
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Examples
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As it often happens in the East, these libraries are all wakf, that is, have been presented to some mosque by its founder, or entailed upon some private family, so that the books cannot be alienated.
Travels in Arabia 2003
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Another and considerable source of exemption from taxation is land which has been made wakf, that is, dedicated to religious purposes, such as land attached to mosques.
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As it often happens in the East, these libraries are all wakf, that is, have been presented to some mosque by its founder, or entailed upon some private family, so that the books cannot be alienated.
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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Some were in rented rooms, funded by local or Diaspora Jews; others were in rooms or buildings endowed to the various communities in religious trust (hekdesh or wakf).
Widows in the North African Jewish Communities of Late Ottoman Palestine. 2009
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The property of the gardens is either mulk or wakf; the former, if they belong to an individual; the latter, if they belong to the mosque, or any of the medreses or pious foundations, from which they are farmed, at very long leases, by the people of Medina themselves, who re-let them on shorter terms to the cultivators.
Travels in Arabia 2003
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I wanted only 'mulk' or freehold land; and 'wakf' (land held in tail or mortmain) of various and awful kinds is much more common.
Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905
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The property of the gardens is either mulk or wakf; the former, if they belong to an individual; the latter, if they belong to the mosque, or any of the medreses or pious foundations, from which they are farmed, at very long leases, by the people of Medina themselves, who re-let them on shorter terms to the cultivators.
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred John Lewis Burckhardt 1800
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Minister, Mr. Omar Abdullah who is also the Chairman of the Board decided to revise the rentals of all wakf
WN.com - Articles related to 100 peaks in Kashmir opened to foreigners 2010
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The very intention of wakf property was to use the revenue generated for the welfare of poor Muslims.
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BJP-ruled States to take urgent steps to end encroachment or illegal occupation of wakf property.
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