Siti Mashitoh Mahamood, (2006), Waqf in Malaysia: Legal and Administrative Perspective

Dr. Siti Mashitoh s book of 191 pages may be brief if one goes by the number of pages, but its coverage is quite comprehensive and very rich in its contents. Largely based on her PhD thesis submitted in 2000 to the University of Birmingham, it effecti vely fills a wide gap in the field ofinvestigative research on the legal and supervisory aspects of waqfadministration in Malaysia.An earlier book written in 1982 by Mohd. Zain bin Haji Othman, titled Islamic Law with Special Reference to the Institution of Waqf (Prime Minister Department, Religious Affairs Division, Kuala Lumpur, 1982, pp. 254) was purely theoretical in nature , and gave only the classical law of waqf in accordance with the four Sunni schools ofIslamic Jurisprudence. The book made no reference to the realities on the ground , that is, the statutory and administrative set-up of awqaf iti Malaysia.