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Waqf f ‎(genitive Waqf, plural Awqaf)

Declension of Waqf

See also: Waqf

waqf ‎(plural awqaf or waqfs)

An endowment of land, in certain Islamic countries, given over for religious or charitable purposes.
- 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, p. 25:
  The qadis in Egypt and Syria administer the waqfs and alms for the benefit of travellers.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 368:
  A small house at the centre of the bazaar dispensed coffee free of charge to the poor at the expense of the waqf, an Ottoman charitable foundation.

inalienable endowment for charity