Privy Council and the Muslim endowment (waqf)

Nurfadzilah Yahaya Blog Post

Our blogger is Zubair Abbasi who is an Assistant Professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences. Zubair Abbasi completed his doctorate from the Faculty of Law, Oxford University. The focus of his doctoral thesis was on the transplantation of English legal system in colonial India and the interaction between Islamic law (Fiqh) and English law in this process. He conducted a case study of the developments in Islamic waqf law under the British legal system by analysing the jurisprudence developed in the judgments of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and various Indian High Courts