Ownership of wealth: waqf, debts, deposits and mahr

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Updated on 06 October 2026 at 10:50 PM

This second part of the general chapters on zakat covers 10 sheets of the encyclopedia: zakat on waqf property, the definition of complete and incomplete ownership, its criterion and illustrations in the 4 schools, usurped and lost property, and the questions of debt (held by a solvent, an insolvent or a deferred debtor), mudaraba capital, deposited property and the woman's mahr. Each school position is reported with its evidence, its classical references and the traditions cited by the authors.

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