The Origins of the Trust - by Gilbert Paul Verbit

Frederic W. Maitland, the pre-eminent Anglo-American legal historian, said that the trust "perhaps forms the most distinctive achievement of English lawyers. It seems to us almost essential to civilization and yet there is nothing quite like it in foreign law." This book is an updating of Maitland’s work, first looking at his suggested “foreign” sources for the trust -- Roman law, German (Salic) law, and Franciscan “law.” It then considers a source Maitland did not –Islamic law– and finds that the Islamic waqf is not only “quite like” the trust, but predated it by at least five hundred years.

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Executive secretariat of the International Conference on Waqf and Islamic Civilization considers the International Conference on Waqf and Islamic Civilization in an interview as a climax in relations and interactions of Awqaf and Charity Works Organization with foreign countries and other organizations in Iran. Mr. Kaini, executive, financial and parliament assistance, presented the main goal of conducting this conference as introducing and expanding waqf and endowed properties in the country and added: this is the first time that such a goal is achieved through an international conference. Executive secretariat of conference said that .