Islamic Fiqh > Endowments (waqf) and property > Managing a waqf: the nazar (custody) > The rules of the nazir (waqf administrator)
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The nazir is the administrator entrusted with supervising a waqf (Islamic endowment). These sheets gather its rules according to the four schools of law: who may be designated as nazir and under which conditions (probity, majority, competence), his remuneration, his duties, his liability, the plurality of supervisors, delegation of his office, and the rules for his removal. Each position is reported with its classical references.