« Waqf and proprietary right: the Chahārdah Ma‘ṣūm Waqf in Tehran ». Asian Economies, 48-6, 2007, pp. 9-28. [in Japanese]
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Akihiko Yamaguchi, « « Waqf and proprietary right: the Chahārdah Ma‘ṣūm Waqf in Tehran ». Asian Economies, 48-6, 2007, pp. 9-28. [in Japanese] », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.37791
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This well-documented article revisits the issue of the inalienability and perpetuity of the waqf properties. The author demonstrates how the perpetuity of the waqf continues to have effect on the rights to endowed properties down to posterity, even after they lost their original form as waqf. Chahārdah Ma‘ṣūm Waqf in Teheran is a case in point. It is the Safavid royal family that created this large endowment and laid it down that the ruler of the time should be its administrator. In fact, the...