Session 3A – Empire and the Politics of Waqf Endowments in the Middle East and North Africa
June 10 @ 14h40 – 16h30
Chair: Musa Sroor (Birzeit University)
- Musa Sroor (Birzeit University) – The Problematic of the Sacred and the Material in the Relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Waqf of Al-Aqsa Mosque
Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, TELEMMe-MMSH, Aix-Marseille University) – Weaponizing Waqf: The French Mandate’s Agenda to Dismantle the Waqf Endowment System in Syria (1920–46)
Ouddène Boughoufala (Ibn Khaldoun University, Tiaret, Algeria) – Local Family
Strategies in the Context of Empire: Family and Genealogy in Medea and Miliana Based
on Ottoman Archives of Algeria
Mohammadreza Neyestani (Researcher, TELEMMe-MMSH, Aix-Marseille University) – The Waqf System in Safavid Persia (Iran)
Salem Salah (Independent Researcher, Tunisia/France) – The Management Policy of Waqf Foundations in Tunis at the End of the Ottoman Period: From Local Management to Centralization (1875–1881)