00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000009715 20200508204926 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 978-90-04-37784-4 010-0520009715 eng 349.5 349.5/HOV/W Eirik Hovden Waqf in Zaydi Yemen Leiden Brill 2018 <a href="https://brill.com/abstract/title/38952">e-book</a> Islamic foundations ( waqf, pl. awqaf) 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 Zaydi fiqh works such as the Shar? al-azhar cluster, imamic decrees, fatwas, and waqf documents, mostly from Zaydi, northern Yemen. Islamic Law Middle East and Islamic Studies Sociology & Anthropology