Hennigan, Peter C., 1970-

The birth of a legal institution : the formation of the waqf in third-century A.H. Hanafi legal discourse / by Peter C. Hennigan - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004 - xxiii, 238 p. ; 24 cm. - Studies in Islamic law and society, v. 18 1384-1130 ; .

'... presents the first sustained analysis of the earliest legal treatises on the Islamic trust, or waqf-the Ahkam al-waqf of Hilal al-Ra'y and the Ahkam al-awqaf of al-Khassaf.'--Cover

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Ra'y al-Basri, Hilal ibn Yahya, d. 859? Kitab Ahkam al-waqf
Khassaf, Ahmad ibn'Umar, d. 874 or 5. Ahkam al-awqaf


Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law)
Waqf--History--To 1500
Hanafites
Endowments--Islamic countries