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Biography

I am professor with the CNRS, Centre tiol de la Recherche Scientifique, in France, Aix Marseille University, research unit TELEMMe UMR 7303 in Aix en Provence. My is Islamic law of the waqf endowments in the Islamic world with a focus on the Syrian regions with a timeframe from the latter part of the Ottoman period through the French Mandate in Syria and Lebanon and up to the contemporary period. In this respect, I study the evolution of Islamic and state law with respect to the waqf, with some reference to the Christian and Jewish waqf, and I also research specific case studies of Ottoman waqf, i.e., norms and practices of waqf. With respect to waqf research, I organised an Intertiol Research Network, a GDRI, funded by the CNRS and nine international and national partners in Tunisia, Algeria, Palestine, Lebanon/Syria/Jordan, the UAE, Malaysia and Japan.