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Earliest waqf legacy in the world is deciphered: Two villages in Palestine

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The earliest known complete waqfiyya inscription in the Islamic world has been deciphered. Engraved on a soft limestone, it involves the endowment of two farmsteads in ninth-century Palestine. The property was made over to the poor, in the name of Allah, likely by a high-ranking eunuch.

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Earliest waqf legacy in the world is deciphered: Two villages in Palestine

Donated to the poor by a eunuch official to the caliph, who couldn’t leave it to heirs, the endowment should have been eternal – but then the Crusaders arrived

2 years ago·Tel Aviv- Yafo, Israel

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