FLUID JURISDICTIONS (2020) and Solid Perpetuities
Forum on Waqfs / Philanthropy and Historical Research / Philanthropy and the State

FLUID JURISDICTIONS (2020) and Solid Perpetuities

Editors’ Note: Continuing HistPhil‘s forum on waqfs, Leilah Vevaina reviews Nurfadzilah Yahaya’s Fluid Jurisdictions (2020), while discussing her own research on religious endowments in India and the Straits Settlements. Vevaina writes: “This axis of what colonial authorities recognized as public, and hence, as charitable giving, versus familial hence private giving, was the key evaluator of why … Continue reading