In this thoughtful article, Dr Zara Khan on behalf the Yaqeen Institute, considers the potential of waqfs to address the economic troubles confronting the world today. She spotlights the growing despondency emerging in farming communities and the wealth disparities between races to demonstrate the structural poverty embedded in our current global economic system. Weakening the ramparts requires a new thinking, and in survelling waqfs in theory and in history, Dr. Khan believes the values that underpin waqfs are a perfect antidote to the structual poverty that corrupts our world today. To read her thoughts in detail, please visit https://yaqeeninstitute.org/zarakhan/reviving-the-waqf-tradition-moral-imagination-and-the-structural-causes-of-poverty/
Odd and Unusual Types of Waqf
The Waqf was integral to the Third Sector of pre-modern Muslim societies, acting as a conduit between those with the resources to provide those without. In assuming such a role, their establishment was also a reflection of what was important to the communities in...