TY - BOOK AU - Hennigan,Peter C. TI - The birth of a legal institution: the formation of the waqf in third-century A.H. Hanafi legal discourse SN - 9004130292 PY - 2004/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Ra'y al-Basri, Hilal ibn Yahya, KW - Khassaf, Ahmad ibn'Umar, KW - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Islamic law) KW - Waqf KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Hanafites KW - Endowments KW - Islamic countries N1 - '... 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; Bibliography : p. [215]-232 ER -