Brief on waqf, its substitution (Istibdāl), and selected resolutions of Islāmic Fiqh Academy India: a maqāṣid al-sharī’ah perspective

• Main Authors: Ali, Mohammed Farid, U Tun Aung, Maulana Akbar Shah, Gamon, Alizaman Dumangcag
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IIUM Press 2018
• Subjects: KBP Islamic Law; KBP2000 Public law. The state and Islam; KBP3526 Public finance; KBP490 Furūʻ al-fiqh. Substantive law. Branches of law.; KBP50 History, development and application of Islamic law; KBP639 Muʻāmalāt
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/68885/1/Brief%20on%20Waqf%20Intellectual%20Discourse%20Special%20Issue%202018.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/68885/; http://journals.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/islam/issue/view/81

Waqf is a charity in which corpus is maintained and the usufruct is given to the beneficiaries. The continuity of the usufruct depends on the maintenance and management of the corpus. One of the modes used both in classical and modern times to maintain waqf-properties is substitution of one waqf-pro...