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Waḳf
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II. In the Arab Lands 2. In Syria. A survey of the history of endowments in Syria, in the geographical sense of Bilād al-S̲h̲ām [see al-s̲h̲am ], has to take into account a broad range of changing and often localised rules and practices. This article will focus primarily on Syria’s main urban centres, Damascus [see dimas̲h̲ḳ ], Jerusalem [see al-ḳuds ] and Aleppo [see ḥalab ], and occasionally refer to smaller cities. In general, endowments in Syria have not solicited as much scholarly attention as those in Egypt, particularly before the Ottoman period. To a certain…
