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- noun Plural form of
waqf .
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Examples
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Nasr Khusraw refers to a great teaching hospital with rich waqfs dedicated to it, from which medicines for its numerous patients were dispensed and salaries for doctors were paid.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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We must look at existing waqfs in the Muslim world, at their history, at the moral, political and economic arguments used to explain their methods of functioning, at their limits—for instance, I do not know of any “free food for the masses” waqfs, but I know of plenty of “free water for the animals” waqfs—and finally at the confused and confusing Western protestant-jewish idea that “there is no such thing as a free lunch”.
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Nasr Khusraw refers to a great teaching hospital with rich waqfs dedicated to it, from which medicines for its numerous patients were dispensed and salaries for doctors were paid.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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We must look at existing waqfs in the Muslim world, at their history, at the moral, political and economic arguments used to explain their methods of functioning, at their limits—for instance, I do not know of any “free food for the masses” waqfs, but I know of plenty of “free water for the animals” waqfs—and finally at the confused and confusing Western protestant-jewish idea that “there is no such thing as a free lunch”.
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In order to find the limits that should really be placed on such a project, limits of good taste and decorum as much as limits of basic morality, I propose a detailed study of the history of the waqfs correctly, awqaf of the Muslim world : their finance, their purpose, their achievements, and their limits.
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Nasr Khusraw refers to a great teaching hospital with rich waqfs dedicated to it, from which medicines for its numerous patients were dispensed and salaries for doctors were paid.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Nasr Khusraw refers to a great teaching hospital with rich waqfs dedicated to it, from which medicines for its numerous patients were dispensed and salaries for doctors were paid.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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In order to find the limits that should really be placed on such a project, limits of good taste and decorum as much as limits of basic morality, I propose a detailed study of the history of the waqfs correctly, awqaf of the Muslim world : their finance, their purpose, their achievements, and their limits.
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In 1957, all waqfs came under state administration.
m. Egypt 2001
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Islamic extremists kidnapped and murdered Hasan al-Dhahabi, the minister of waqfs.
1977, Jan 2001
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