Sentence examples for * waqf in from inspiring English sources

While this example shows the potential of Waqf, in many Muslim communities legal and policy restrictions have often hampered Waqf rather than facilitated its development.

Likewise, some Jews have contended that renovations and excavations on the Temple Mount begun by the Muslim waqf in the late 1990s might endanger Jewish cultural treasures.

In January 2007, Adnan al-Husayni head of the Islal-Husayni headarge of al-Aqsa—stheed that a new mIslamicould be installed; it waqfinstalled in February 2007.

Until modern times, schools, charities and places of worship, all organized as corporations in Western Europe, were set up as waqfs in the Middle East.

We created a digital waqf, or in the language of Bitcoin developers, we created a DAO.

For years, Israeli citizens who wished to travel to the Saudi holy places made arrangements with the Jordanian waqf authorities in East Jerusalem; they are permitted through the King Hussein Bridge based on lists approved by both Saudi and Jordanian authorities.

In addition, the extended urban domain concealed countless deserted plots, called kharāb ("uninhabited," or "in ruin") in the waqf documents, where ruins stood as attestations to the bankrupt economy and dismal urban order on the eve of the Ottoman conquest by Sultan Selim I in 1516.

Muslims have full access to the Cave of the Patriarchs and the Islamic waqf's role in administering it remains unchanged.

"This is interference in the affairs of the Waqf and its work in Al Aqsa mosque," he said.

Egypt had two main forms of tenure: private ownership and waqf, or land held in trust and dedicated to charitable or educational purposes.

Islam's alternative to the nonprofit corporation was the waqf, a trust established in accordance with Shariah to deliver specified services forever, through trustees bound by essentially fixed instructions.