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Endowment (Waqf) and the Manifestations of Social Solidarity in the Society of Al Jabal Al Akhdar to the End of the 14th Century AH / 20th Century CE: A Documentary Study

al-Waqf wa-Tajallīyāt al-Takāful al-Ijtimāʻī fī Mujtamaʻ al-Jabal al-Akhḍar ḥattá Nihāyat al-Qarn al-Rābiʻ ʻAshar al-Hijrī / al-ʻIshrīn al-Mīlādī: Dirāsah Wathāʼiqīyah

الوقف وتجليات التكافل الاجتماعي في مجتمع الجبل الأخضر حتى نهاية القرن 14هـ/20م (دراسة وثائقية)

Nabīl ibn Mājid ibn Ibrāhīm al-ʻAbrī (Ministry of Education, Oman; Sultan Qaboos University)
نبيل بن ماجد بن إبراهيم العبري
Conference: The First Fig and Olive Forum — Al Jabal Al Akhdar, 2026
Romanized conference title: Multaqá al-Tīn wa-al-Zaytūn al-Awwal
Language of the paper: Arabic — this page presents the English metadata layer.
Permanent citation ID: MHF-TEENZAYTOON-005

Abstract

The endowment (waqf) represents one of the high Islamic values bearing on social solidarity in Muslim society, and Oman was not apart from it: across its towns and villages many endowments were established for varied charitable purposes and documented in the records left by earlier generations. By records is meant all endowment material found in endowment deeds, wills, gravestones, falaj registers and the oral history transmitted across generations; endowment documents of every kind are important sources for writing the local history of Omani society, for the precise detail they contain reaches beyond the preservation of the endowment itself to reflect patterns of interaction in daily life and the social relations that embody solidarity among individuals and groups. The study proceeds from a central problem: the functional role of the endowment in rooting the mechanisms of social solidarity in the society of Al Jabal Al Akhdar to the end of the fourteenth century AH / twentieth century CE, through a documentary approach analysing the available endowment formulas and registers, and asking how far these documents can contribute to reconstructing aspects of that society.

Keywords

WaqfSocial solidarityAl Jabal Al AkhdarEndowment documentsLocal historyOman

How to cite

ʻAbrī, Nabīl ibn Mājid ibn Ibrāhīm. "al-Waqf wa-Tajallīyāt al-Takāful al-Ijtimāʻī fī Mujtamaʻ al-Jabal al-Akhḍar ḥattá Nihāyat al-Qarn al-Rābiʻ ʻAshar al-Hijrī / al-ʻIshrīn al-Mīlādī: Dirāsah Wathāʼiqīyah" [Endowment (Waqf) and the Manifestations of Social Solidarity in the Society of Al Jabal Al Akhdar to the End of the 14th Century AH / 20th Century CE: A Documentary Study]. Paper presented at Multaqá al-Tīn wa-al-Zaytūn al-Awwal, Wilāyat al-Jabal al-Akhḍar, 2026. MHF-TEENZAYTOON-005

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