Preface
Chapter I State and Shrine in Iran: Waqf Administration of the Shah ʿAbd al-ʿAzim Shrine under the Qajars
Chapter II The Waqf and Building the Cities: The Old City of Jerusalem as a Case Study
Chapter III Waqf as a Device for Sustaining and Promoting Education: A Case from Pre-modern Central Asia
Chapter IV Women’s Waqfs and Their Social Role in Ottoman Algeria
Chapter V Christian Religious Foundations in Western Europe: Between Spirituality and Wordliness
Chapter VI The Emergence of the Ancestral Hall as a Financial Institution in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century China: Institutional Change in Huizhou
Chapter VII Commendation of Land in Medieval Japan and Its Social Function
Chapter VIII Waqf and Social Patronage among the Tamil Muslim Diaspora in the Straits Settlement of Penang
Chapter IX The Awqaf of Maghribis in al-Quds (Jerusalem): Spiritual Links, Cultural Exchanges, Economic Necessities
Chapter X The Mughal-Nawabi Legacy under “Siege” in the Age of Empire (1860s–1880s): Familial Grants and the Waqf of Khanqah-e Karimia, Salon, India
Chapter XI Colonial States Claiming Waqf: Reflections on a Transregional Approach, from the French and British Near East to British India
Chapter XII The Spread of Waqfs Following British Colonial Trade in the Indian Ocean: A Comparison with the Atlantic Trade
Chapter XIII Transregional Comparison of the Waqf in Pre-modern Times: Japan, China, and Syria
Chapter XIV Waqf, Foundations, and Similar Institutions around the World (Eleventh–Twentieth Century)