The controversy stemmed from the fact that many supporters of the religious endowment were part of the tory ruling class.

It has often been a problem that qadis have been managers of waqfs, religious endowments.

Waqf ("religious endowment") documents in the mosque indicate that he maintained vast wealth.

Krishnan Raman is known for the religious endowments he made.

For example, he took back the land and property, which had been given to the nobles as gifts or religious endowments.

He took the portfolios of public health and religious endowments in the Rajaji cabinet.

The railway was to be a waqf, an inalienable religious endowment or charitable trust.

Perctarit's reign is not noted for its military accomplishments, but for his religious endowments.

She built a hospice for the poor and she bequeathed religious endowments.

That their mosques, and the religious endowments appertaining to them, should remain as they were in the times of Islam.