TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hovden,Eirik
TI  - Waqf in Zaydi Yemen: legal theory, codification, and local practice 
T2  - Studies in Islamic law and society
SN  - 9789004377844
AV  - KMX1271.35 
U1  - 349.533 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Waqf
KW  - Yemen (Republic)
KW  - Islamic law
N1  - Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Transliteration -- Introduction -- Representing Validity in Islamic Law -- Central Waqf Administration -- Main Texts of Zaydī Waqf Fiqh and Law -- Family Waqf and Inheritance -- The Tenant’s Strong Hand -- Private Rights in Public Waqf -- Pure Law, ʿUrf, and Maṣlaḥa: Conclusions -- Back Matter -- Bibliography; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Islamic foundations ( waqf , pl. awqāf ) have been an integral part of Yemeni society both for managing private wealth and as a legal frame for charity and public infrastructure. This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh , codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf -related knowledge. It combines textual analysis with ethnography and seeks to understand how Islamic law is approached, used, produced, and validated in selected topics of waqf law where there are tensions between ideals and pragmatic rules. The study analyses central Zaydī fiqh works such as the Sharḥ al-azhār cluster, imamic decrees, fatwā s, and waqf documents, mostly from Zaydī, northern Yemen
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004377844
ER  -