This study contributes to the legal discourse on the question of land properties (waqf) in the late Mamluk period. Al-Maqrīzī's treatise on the Hebron endowment is critically edited for the first time together with an annotated translation and a facsimile of the manuscript bearing his emendations.

Yehoshua Frenkel, Ph.D The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, teaches Medieval Islamic History at the University of Haifa. His main research interest is social and legal history.