The Traveling Waqf: Property, Religion, and Mobility beyond China

For most of their millennial history in China, Muslims have established pious endowments called waqfs that served a variety of functions, including providing land to build mosques. The founding of waqfs radically changed in 1949, when the Communists confiscated land. Recently, a Hui who was performi...

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Main Author: Erie, Matthew S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 2018, Volume: 25, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 121-155
Further subjects:B historical anthropology
B Diaspora (social sciences)
B China
B Memory
B Inheritance
B Property
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