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  2. Waqf - Wikipedia

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    The only significant distinction between the Islamic waqf and English trust was "the express or implied reversion of the waqf to charitable purposes when its specific object has ceased to exist", [55] though this difference only applied to the waqf ahli (Islamic family trust) rather than the waqf khairi (devoted to a charitable purpose from its ...

  3. Office of the Waqf Administrator - Wikipedia

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    The government of Bangladesh established the Office of the Waqf Administrator to manage those properties. It replaced a smaller organization formed in 1962 by the Waqfs Ordinance. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The administrator is responsible for managing 70,955 acres but it faces difficulty due to shortages in funding and personnel. [ 4 ]

  4. Islamic banking and finance - Wikipedia

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    A number of economic concepts and techniques were applied in early Islamic banking, including bills of exchange, partnership (mufawada, including limited partnerships, or mudaraba), and forms of capital (al-mal), capital accumulation (nama al-mal), [56] cheques, promissory notes, [57] trusts (see Waqf), [58] transactional accounts, loaning ...

  5. Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Bangladesh is one of the largest herbal pharmaceutical companies in Bangladesh. It operates as a philanthropic waqf (endowment) in which all the company's profits go to a charitable foundation. The company traces its origins to early 20th-century Old Delhi.

  6. History of Islamic economics - Wikipedia

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    Between the 9th and 14th centuries, the Muslim world developed many advanced economic concepts, techniques and usages. These ranged from areas of production, investment, finance, economic development, taxation, property use such as Hawala: an early informal value transfer system, Islamic trusts, known as waqf, systems of contract relied upon by merchants, a widely circulated common currency ...

  7. Bangladesh Journals Online - Wikipedia

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    INASP initiated BanglaJOL in June 2007 and officially launched it in September 2007. [2] The Bangladesh Academy of Sciences assumed management of BanglaJOL in 2014. [3]It is a database of open access journals published in Bangladesh, dealing with the full range of academic disciplines including both paper based and online only publications.

  8. The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 - Wikipedia

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    The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 was introduced in the Indian Lok Sabha on 8 August 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It seeks to repeal Mussalman Wakf Act, 1923 and amend the Waqf Act, 1995. [ 4 ] The Act regulates waqf property in India , and defines Waqf as an endowment of movable or immovable property for purposes considered pious, religious, or ...

  9. Waqf-e-Jadid - Wikipedia

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    Waqf-e-Jadid (also known as The New Dedication) is a scheme initiated by Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood in 1957, and was launched to spread Islam and Ahmadiyyat in remote areas of Pakistan, especially in the province of Sindh. [1] The scheme was initially only for the Ahmadis of Pakistan, but was made world-wide by Mirza Tahir Ahmad later. [2]