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Waqf as a Model for Production and Conservation of Architectural Heritage

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Abstract

This paper seeks to link conservation of historic buildings with a tradition of Islamic waqf. Its aim is to inspire useful conservation lessons from this tradition for possible use in modern day practice. The paper investigates traditional waqf practice in the World Heritage Stone Town of Zanzibar to discover how it managed to preserve substantial stock of its historic buildings throughout the times. The results of this paper show that although waqf was originally intended for socio-economic welfare of poor and disadvantaged, it is inherently coded with simple but effective heritage conservation philosophies. The philosophies pre-date the world conservation movements and can be adopted to enrich the present concepts.

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Khalfan Amour Khalfan. 2014. "Waqf as a Model for Production and Conservation of Architectural Heritage". Global Journal of Human-Social Science - D: History, Archaeology & Anthropology GJHSS-D Volume 14 (GJHSS Volume 14 Issue 27 (D3)).

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJHSS

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e-ISSN 2249-460X

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May 30, 2014

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