CYPRUS

Commencement

900

1571

Status
Revenue

Majority

Majority

Waqf estates
Nature

12579 (1982)
Arable land;
Forests; Urban
land & buildings

Projects
Supported

10000 Masajid;
500 Madaris;
Idgahs,
Cemetaries,
Feeding schemes
for poor;
Celebration of
Islamic festivals;
schools; colleges;
orphanages;
charitable
dispensaries;
Darul Hifz; Darul
Qiraat; Dawah; ul

Agricultural land;
Building sites;
Buildings; trees;
Estates for social and
religious purposes;
commercial centres.

Building of new
masajid and minarets;
maintenance and
administration of
existing masajid;
financial assistance to
needy traders; starting
financial, commercial,
industrial and
agricultural
enterprises; tile
factories; community
economic
development

INDIA

Minority

+100000
Residential &
commercial
buildings; urban
lands; cultivated
agricultural land;

musafir khana;
sarais; idgahs;
dargahs; khankhas;
2500 secular &
technical schools,
colleges,
orphanages, 60000
madrasahs; Darul
Ulooms; 200000
masajid;

SRI LANKA

TURKEY

Minority (8%)

Seljuks, Ottoman, &

Republican
Majority

46 Trusts

1600 masajid;
625 registered
madrasahs; 55
Arabic colleges;
64 other Islamic
institutions;
Makola Muslim
Orphanage;
Girls Training
College;
Technical
School

37917
Masajid
4400
Dormitories
500
Businesses
453
Hotels/ Sarais 150
Shops
5348
Houses/Aptm 2254
Depahs/Tables 453
Other
Properties 24809
Bee hives; ponds; lakes
Masajid; madaris; health
services hospitals;
inns; road bridges;
Imarets; free boarding
and lodging for students;
Water fountains;
Publishing; Art;
Seminars & conferences;
scholars; masakeen;
Meadows for cattle &
sheep; Home for old
horses; support pilgrims;
dawah, taalim; moulood
sharif; candles; orchard
maintenance; dates,
water, food in ramadaan;
replacement of
household utencils fear
of reproach; maintenace
of charity institutions;
guilds for skills training;
huffaaz..

KENYA

Minority

SUDAN

Majority
SP265m
(1996)

KUWAIT

SOUTH AFRICA

1921

PROPOSAL: 2001

Majority

Minority

Shops;
houses;
agricultural
plots

Health
care;
education;
orphan
support;
poor relief;
dawah.

Real Estate;
Houses; Bequests;
Cash, shares etc

Teaching of
Holy Quran
and related
subjects;
Mosque
preservation;
Promotion of
science and
education;
Local
community
development;
health care;
environment
preservation;
promotion of
culture and
thought;
Family
development;
handicapped
support;
promotion of
international
Islamic cooperation.

Community
Empowerment
(Especially
Emerging Muslim
Communities)
Education:
Scholarships &
Bursaries
Youth Development
Art, Culture &
Heritage
Job Creation
Poverty Alleviation
Skills Training
Small / Micro
Business
Development
Masajid / Madressas
Self-Reliance
Programmes
Research
Qard Hassan Loans
RDP Projects
Discretionary Fund
Assistance to
Mujahideen
Clinics, Animal
Care, Feeding
schemes
Dawah,
Taalim,Qirah Jalsas
& Competitions
Promotion of
literature writing
Support hujjaj
Dates, food, water
for Ramadaan
Household items for
poor newly weds
Imarat (free trading
place)
Roads, bridges, and
civil works

Appendix 4
Awqaf Case Studies
61

AWQAF CASE STUDIES

Z A Cajee 27 Ramadaan 1421 Islamic Research
Centre/ Suliman Nana Memorial Centre

BANGLADESH

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Types
Law

Control

New Awqaf
Investments

Waqf-lillah
Waqf-lil -awlad
Awqaf Ordinance
1962

Awqaf Mazbutah
Awqaf Mulhaqah
Awqaf & Religious
Affairs Office
(Establishment ) Law
31/1970.

State regulation

Autonomous
Community/Civic with
State supervision

Taxation

Muslim
Mosques and
Charitable
Trusts Awqaf
Act 1982

State administration
& Supervision

Housing; Shopping
Centres; Tourism;
Culture
Awqaf Finance & Dev
Corp Ltd
( Waqfpublic JV)
Cyrus Vakiflar Bank

State Assistance

Cost of
Administration,
internal audit,
management
Aim

Waqf Act 1954,

amended in 1984.

5%- 15% of Awqaf

revenues

Inter alia Community

economic
development; job
creation; respond to
community
infrastructure

Grants in Aid for

development of
Waqf properties;
Revolving funds.
6% to Provincial
Waqf Boards; 1% to
Central Waqf
Council
Accelerating the
social and economic
development of the
Muslim community

Awqaf Mazbutah
Awqaf Mulhaqah
Awqaf Act

Waqf Khairi
Waqf Ahli
Waqf
Commissione
rs Act 1951

Ministry of Awqaf; State

regulation, supervision;
and in certain instances,
direct control

Autonomous
parastatal/
Registry and
supervision

Any hasanaat that

can be imagined
Waqf-lillah
Waqf-ahli
Islamic
Waqf Act
1970; Law
of Awqaf &
Religious
Affairs
1980.
1989:
Islamic
Awqaf
Corporation
of Sudan :
autonomou
s parastatal
responsible
to Minister
of Social
Planning
1995:
Awqaf
Charitable
Company:
Mobilising
community
capital:
Small
waqifeen/d
onors

Awqaf
Department
of Kuwait
(1921)

Kuwait
Awqaf Public
Foundation
(1992)
Ministry of
Awqaf &
Religious
Affairs

SA Islamic
Development
Agency; Project
identification,
assessment,
management,
evaluation
SA Awqaf
Foundation:
Mobilisation of
waqf capital and
holding of waqf
assets

Ayvalik & Aydem Olive

Oil Corp;
Tasdelen Healthy Water
Corp;
Awqaf Guraba Hospital;
Taksim Hotel (Sheraton)
Black Sea Copper
Industry;
Turkish Awqaf Bank.
(Est 1954)

Financial Services

5%-20% of revenues;
10% salary for mutawalli

15% of revenues

Property Fund
Private Equity Fund

Grants in Aid

To establish a broad
based community
development agency
funded by deeply
rooted shariah based
institutions
TOTALLY TAX
EXEMPT