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Held in Trust: Waqf in the Islamic World

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Divinity Atlas. "Held in Trust: Waqf in the Islamic World." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/held-in-trust-waqf-in-the-islamic-world.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Held in Trust: Waqf in the Islamic World. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/held-in-trust-waqf-in-the-islamic-world

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@misc{divinityatlas-held-in-trust-waqf-in-the-islamic-world,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Held in Trust: Waqf in the Islamic World},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/held-in-trust-waqf-in-the-islamic-world},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Pascale Ghazaleh is a historian, and this is an edited academic collection published by the American University in Cairo Press, bringing together specialists on waqf, the Islamic charitable and religious endowment, across different regions and periods of Islamic history. Its strength is breadth achieved through specialization, each chapter is written by someone working directly with the legal or archival records of waqf in their particular context, rather than one author generalizing across the whole Islamic world. Because it is a collection, the depth and approach vary chapter to chapter, and a reader should check which chapter a given claim comes from rather than treating the volume as one uniform voice. It is an academic work aimed at readers with some background in Islamic legal or economic history.

Facts

Assessment

Reliability Tier

A scholarly edited volume on waqf, the Islamic institution of charitable and religious endowment, with chapters by specialist contributors covering its history and function across different regions and periods; coverage is uneven by topic since it depends on which contributor wrote a given chapter.

Notes

Scholarly edited volume on waqf, the Islamic institution of charitable and religious endowment, with chapters by specialist contributors covering its history and function across different regions and periods. Use for established scholarly facts about a covered waqf topic or region; coverage is uneven by topic since it depends on which contributor wrote a given chapter.

Citation

Author

Pascale Ghazaleh (ed.)

Publisher

American University in Cairo Press

Publication Year

2011

Source Type

academic monograph

Cross-Tradition Connections

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Cairo

This source names Cairo directly: "by the American University in Cairo Press, bringing together specialists on waqf, the Islamic charitable and religious endowment, across different regions and periods of Islamic history."

Source Held in Trust: Waqf in the Islamic WorldPascale Ghazaleh (ed.)

Claims Backed By This Source (63 claims)

This source backs 63 claims across the atlas. As facts: 23 well-attested. As cited relationships: 23 holds. Plus 17 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Religious Orders, 16 claims: 8 holds, 8 general references.
Religious Organization & Structure, 11 claims: 5 well-attested, 5 holds, 1 general references.
Schools of Religious Law, 10 claims: 5 holds, 5 general references.
Custodians & Museums, 9 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
Religious Legal Instruments, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
Articles, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.