Pobożna donacja (wakf) jako muzułmański instrument ograniczania ubóstwa - wybrane zagadnienia

Jacek Adamek

Abstract

The cognitive-analytical purpose of the study is to present the nature of religionoriented donations/foundations (Awaqf) in the process of reducing the causes and consequences of poverty in the Islamic world. The author assumes that the multidimensionality of Waqf characteristics stems from the essence of this instrument and the diversified effects of its application, referring to the sphere of sacrum and profanum of an individual’s life, experiencing the state of poverty and actively counteracting it. Two types of research activities were used: description (descriptive method) and explanation, based on deduction as a logical inference method. As a result of the research the put forward thesis was positively verified, which allowed concluding that the characteristics attributed to a religion oriented donation, analysed through e.g. the prism of its application effects, become the function of determinants specific for the cultural (religious), institutional and socio-economic space of Islam.